“I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
— The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Jun. 19 2013
oscartales: with camera by himarin*

oscartales:

with camera by himarin*

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Jun. 9 2013
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“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, “I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.” Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. Now you know. A mystery is solved. So, I think you should just give it a try. Just inch yourself out of that back line. Step into life. Courage. Risks. Yes. Go. Now.”
— Amy Poehler (x)

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Jun. 9 2013
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dissections: dear past me, ➔

pavorst:

If I could say one thing to the me of the past, she probably wouldn’t listen to me anyway. But this is the one thing that I’ve learned above all else that I think has set me up to be a better person: be curious. Learn about everything, everything that is outside textbooks and classrooms. Nothing…

Jun. 9 2013
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fragmentedportraits: Johana - February 2013 - Brighton by Kevin Meredith aka lomokev

fragmentedportraits:

Johana - February 2013 - Brighton
by Kevin Meredith aka lomokev

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Jun. 9 2013
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heatherbat: stunningpicture: ‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn was the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts. …and history remembers her as pretty.

heatherbat:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Hepburn was the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts.

…and history remembers her as pretty.

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Jun. 8 2013
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“If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world—even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate—I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it’s not on a geopolitical level….I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked. What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.”
—

The Rumpus Interview with Adam Braver

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Jun. 7 2013
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loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly loveandasandwich: f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly

loveandasandwich:

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

Quirky miniature porcelain sculptures made by Ukranian artists  website Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev

I need the 2nd & last creatures in my life so badly

Jun. 7 2013
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nevver: This world is a messy place…

nevver:

This world is a messy place…

Jun. 4 2013
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“

What really ignites this show is Liu’s Watson, an Asian-American woman who is front and centre of the action and is Holmes’s intellectual equal, and absolutely not a love interest. Series creator Robert Doherty described it as a “bromance where one of the bros is female”. A groundbreaking idea, making the creation of a female Watson a masterstroke of modernisation.

Then there’s Adler, a juicy part that is complex enough to attract Natalie “Game of Thrones” Dormer. This Adler shows up Sherlock’s naked, occasionally lesbian, dominatrix incarnation for the malformed adolescent fantasy it is. In Elementary, there’s a scene in which Adler gets dressed in front of Holmes and she turns away as she does so. Sure, you’re not going to get nip-slips on CBS, but it’s hard to believe this isn’t making a deliberate point. No distracting Holmes with nakedness for this Adler incarnation. She really doesn’t need to.

And that makes two women in this show that Sherlock Holmes considers his intellectual equals. Has Elementary just solved patriarchy?

”
— Why Elementary is far more than a Sherlock Holmes pastiche (via burntlikethesun)

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Jun. 4 2013
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