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teachingliteracy: Emma by ~Ce-ph

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:01:42 -0400

teachingliteracy:

Emma by ~Ce-ph

She is love<3

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:42:46 -0400

She is love<3

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Tue, 21 May 2013 23:45:27 -0400

"Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:27:45 -0400

“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

- Marianne Williamson (via creatingaquietmind)

Baby ducks are one of the best parts of life. (:

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:16 -0400

Baby ducks are one of the best parts of life. (:

I am such a fan of the bow tie. Bow ties all around! (:

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:08:10 -0400

I am such a fan of the bow tie. Bow ties all around! (:

"There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else."

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:58:28 -0400

“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”

- Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle (via intensifyit)

(favorite quotes)

"A few years ago, during a wild and committed period of exercise, I happened to be sent a tape of the..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:16:22 -0400

“A few years ago, during a wild and committed period of exercise, I happened to be sent a tape of the movie “Chicago,” and I made the mistake of confusing it with an exercise video. It was, without question, the greatest exercise video I have ever worked out to. I could lift weights forever while watching it. For the first time in my exercising life, I was never bored. I could be Catherine Zeta-Jones. I could be Renee Zellweger. I pranced around the apartment waving my five-pound weights and singing “All that Jazz.””

- Nora Ephron, ”On Maintenance” in I Feel Bad About My Neck p. 45 (via pipilottirist)

nicholasalexanderodonnell: Have I ever mentioned that Nora...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:02:26 -0400

nicholasalexanderodonnell:

Have I ever mentioned that Nora Ephron is my guardian angel? Well, this short clip is just an iota of that awesomeness. I love this scene.

amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 19 May Happy Birthday,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:29:24 -0400

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 19 May

Happy Birthday, Nora Ephron, born 19 May 1941, died 26 June 2012

10 Quotes

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I don’t have much of a routine. I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don’t do anything. I just sort of have lunch—all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.

First of all, whatever you do, work in a field that has something to do with writing or publishing. So you will be exposed to what people are writing about and how they are writing, and as important, so you will be exposed to people in the business who will get to know you and will call on you if they are looking for someone for a job.

Secondly, you have to write. And if you don’t have a job doing it, then you have to sit at home doing it.

Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger. She is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay): for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally…, and Sleepless in Seattle.

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

I’ve said a million times that I love her brain. I never knew she had add..like me. Interesting. Happy Birthday, Ms. Ephron!

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Sun, 19 May 2013 09:21:54 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 01:12:24 -0400

"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:39:44 -0400

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.  ”

- Eckhart Tolle (via creatingaquietmind)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 19:12:54 -0400

“Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tounges, they will...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:47:31 -0400

“Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tounges, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we only know in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end… And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”

- 1 Corinthians 13:13

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:50:14 -0400

““Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.””

- ~ Rachel Carson (via lapetiteflamme)

thepaintedbench: Walking a Great Dane

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:26:38 -0400

thepaintedbench:

Walking a Great Dane

rookiemag: You & Me & ADHD Dealing with a friend with...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:14:58 -0400

rookiemag:

You & Me & ADHD

Dealing with a friend with attention issues.

Words by Pixie, GIF by Ruby A.

Some of the great investigations are explanations— someone doesn’t always have to go...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:27:00 -0400

Some of the great investigations are explanations— someone doesn’t always have to go to jail.

-Bob Woodward

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Wed, 15 May 2013 11:42:34 -0400