Andrew Solomon Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world. – Andrew Solomon Building Quotes Changing Quotes Forging Quotes Identity Quotes Meaning Quotes Depression is so exhausting – it takes up so much of your time and energy – and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse. When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody’s mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life – married to a husband, with kids – it’s an identity.
Orhan Pamuk I wrote ‘My Name is Red’ just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I’m captive to it, I’m a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future. – Orhan Pamuk
Benjamin Bratt The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life. – Benjamin Bratt
David Robinson In the NBA, you’re taking a bunch of different talents, and you’re managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That’s why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out. – David Robinson
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