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big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame
“Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble Quotes by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
It was all such an insult, the Hamptons. It was an insult to economic disparity. It was an insult to leading a good life and asking hard questions about what one should sacrifice in the name of decency. It was an insult to having enough—to knowing that there was such a thing as enough. Inside those houses weren’t altruistic, good people whom fortun
... See moreMeanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could ta... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Surely You Can Be Serious
"You know, they say when you love what you do, it's not work. But, I think, when you really love what you do, it's great work."
—Yo-Yo Ma
@ Hollywood Bowl, Goat Rodeo Sessions Tour
August 25, 2013