Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.
What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear
Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
There are two voices: the first says write; the second hardly speaks, but I know what he wants. And if I let him, nothing would get done. He hovers at the edges.
No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
Yoga will uplift you if you are feeling sluggish or down, relax you if you feel high-strung, and soften your edges if you are feeling angry.
The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
I think 'Avatar' is much more appropriate to high frame rates because it's like a ride, and it's futuristic, and vividness and sharp edges and clarity would be an asset.
I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.
It's 33 years since we drew Wham! to a close and a lot of people's perspectives have changed and a lot of the rough edges have been knocked off.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
We can't afford to just nibble around the edges of the status quo. We need to take the actions to secure our neighborhoods, to make sure that everyone has opportunity.
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
I used to try to write around the edges, but now I try to walk a more direct line.
I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
I suppose I am a bit of rough. I'm originally from Coolock: I'm rough around the edges.
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Cinderella is a little edgy and a little rough around the edges.
If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.
If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
Messi. 86 goals in calendar year and still 3 games to play! Best to ever play the game in my opinion just edges Maradona.
Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.
Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.
There is this big yawning gap in the middle of British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties have gone to the edges. In this divided, polarised world, the pragmatic centre ground is a bit unloved.
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.
If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.
I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting. I've always striven to be as sloppy as possible.
If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
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