“Eventually I learned that, in the beginning at least, it was better for me to be finished than to try to be perfect. I had to get out of my own way. It wasn't that the voice in my head-the one telling me my pages weren't good enough- went away, exactly. I just didn't let it stop me. An important tool against self-doubt is just to ignore it. Forge ahead anyway. Just keep going, keep going, keep going.”
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
“There’s more comedy in failure than in success, and it’s a much more universal language.”
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine.
It’s hard to say exactly when it will happen, and it’s true that whatever you’re after may not drop down the moment you spend all your quarters, but someday soon a train is coming. In fact, it may already be on the way. You just don’t know it yet.”
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
It’s hard to say exactly when it will happen, and it’s true that whatever you’re after may not drop down the moment you spend all your quarters, but someday soon a train is coming. In fact, it may already be on the way. You just don’t know it yet.”
― Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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