un coeur et une tête

Mara Wilson, former child actress best known for her role as “Matilda,” has since made her exit from the film acting world with no plans to return and is studying playwriting at NYU. She also has a blog with some rather good advice on it. Personal favorites are 6-10. The first part is here.

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April 8

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

—
Eleanor Roosevelt

January 15

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January 5

Honor your vomit.

“All of the songs on the album, to be completely candid [were written quickly]. The creative process is approximately 15 minutes of vomiting my creative ideas, in the forms of melodies, usually, or chord progressions and melodies and some sort of a theme lyric idea. It all happens in approximately 15 minutes of this giant regurgitation of my thoughts and feelings. And then I spend days, weeks, months, years fine tuning. But the idea is that you honor your vomit. You have to honor your vomit. You have to honor those 15 minutes.”

—Lady Gaga

you know what’s funny? this entire last half of the semester, i’ve found myself paralleling going onstage and performing to vomit. it started in voice lessons. my teacher would always be, “vivian that sounded great what’d you do.” ”uhhh, i felt like i kinda just vomited and threw up some sound from my body.”

and then eventually, i started using the term to describe what being in the moment when i was acting was like.

i got to the place where i became comfortable with letting my work be more messy and not apologizing or being scared of the messiness and not dwelling on it. because at the end of the day, it was the most honest.

and describing it as vomiting just helped. ”you ready?” ”not really, but i’m just gonna go vomit onstage” became my new thing.

…and i find out today that gaga calls it the same thing. kinda cool feeling to know we kinda think in the same way about art. it’s vomit that’s been cultivated and structured that we can share with others. :)

December 21

THREE REASONS TO TRAVEL WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG

word. so much is learnt when you’re living in another culture.

aestheticscuration:

Jeff Goins writes:

The other night, I had a conversation with a young woman who had a number of decisions ahead of her, one of which was whether she should go to grad school or travel the world. I told her to travel. Hands down. No excuse. Just go…

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November 26

O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

—
John Keats

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

—
John Keats

August 15

o zelda.

i’ve noticed, however, that each time i’m “bored” it’s more like my insides are screaming to be inspired by something.

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June 30

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

—
Audrey Hepburn

June 9

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.

—
World’s Greatest Dad (via verylittleanswers)

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May 13

I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

—
Natalie Portman (via sangobabyy)

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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.

—
Neil Gaiman (Les Bienviellantes ou The Kindly Ones)

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March 21

yezzzzz

shemeansit:

ultrabrilliant:

Art School Confidential / Daniel Clowes

Originally appeared in issue #7 of Eightball.

March 20

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March 16

lafemmecasanova:

Interviewer: Black history month you find…

Morgan Freeman: Ridiculous.

Interviewer: Why?

Morgan Freeman: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?

Interviewer: Oh, come on.

Morgan Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month?

Interviewer: (pause) Well, I’m Jewish.

Morgan Freeman: Okay. Which month is jewish history month?

Interviewer: There isn’t one.

Morgan Freeman: Oh, oh. Why not? Do you want one?

Interviewer: No.

Morgan Freeman: Right. I don’t either. I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.

Interviewer: How are we going to get rid of racism?

Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it.

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un coeur et une tête

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Life advice from "Matilda"

Honor your vomit.

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