Javier Bardem // "When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other. I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination...I have the male and female values in the same body. 'Be a man'...what do you mean by that?"
Leo Tolstoy // "Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."
Maurice Ravel // "I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
Lucille Ball // "I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn... When I stopped being a prisoner to what I worried was others' opinions of me, I became more confident and free."
John Steinbeck // "Anything that just costs money is cheap."
Rei Kawakubo // "For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty."
Justin Vernon // "We have these intense relationships with our places... But not all of these places are geographical locations so much as sentiments or states of being. I could go on and on and on about how we use the word 'place' in so many different ways... How somebody might ask you 'Where you at?' And they're not asking where are you sitting, where are you living, they're asking: 'How are you doing?'"
Ethan Hawke // "Pay attention: what you need to know is usually in front of you. There are no secrets, just things people choose not to notice."
Charles Bukowski // "If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it... If you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it... If it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it... Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness...don't do it. When it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way. And there never was."
Zadie Smith // "I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human...I only love to be so."
Mark Twain // "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Frank Lloyd Wright // "A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should...be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality."