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- Vader Unmasked: The Sounds and Psychology of Evil
from Darth Vader: The Tragic Man Behind the Mask : NPR
- “The secret is never forgetting that you’re a journeyman actor and that nothing is your final thing, nothing is your greatest thing, nothing is your worst thing,” Jones said. “I still consider myself a novice.”
from James Earl Jones, Distinguished Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies at 93 by Adam B. Vary
Consider yourself a novice
- I don’t know very much [when I start.] I write my way into my knowledge. Then, if I’m lucky, I get a break. That’s why it’s so important to get started. Because however awful starting is—and it is absolutely awful—when you get into it, when you’ve got ten pages, which may take two weeks, then you can build.
from Writing Wednesdays: Be Brave or Be Stupid
Always be starting
- You may be set in your ways, in your thinking, in your estimate of others, but are you willing to change when there is evidence?
from Sublime
- If you are a Manager, or in any capacity of leading a team and are also reporting to someone, at work, “Coach down, Manage up”.
from Sublime
- “There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
from Attention Required! | Cloudflare by Shane
It was their biggest album. But did ‘Synchronicity’ kill the Police?
- Well, I am turning 47. Today.
I am either 46, 47 or 48 depending on which method or system of ascertaining age, you follow. 46 according to a method of insurance premium calculation (“Age last birthday”), 47 according to reality, and 48 according to the Korean tradition, where a baby is considered one year old at birth, and everyone ages one year on... See morefrom 47 by driftmost | rajhesh-panchanadhan
- Society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
~ John W. Gardner,from Tweet by Parakala Prabhakar