February 2012
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Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...
– Kyoko Escamilla (a.k.a Brain-Food) (via elizabeth517)
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January 2012
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: aka that awkward moment...
No doubt piracy is costing the content industries something—or they wouldn’t be...
– Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy | Cato @ Liberty (via herdivineshadow)
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Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
November 2011
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So I was at the hospital today doing a medical..
and guess who walked in?
Eduardo Saverin.
I was just staring into general space near the counter when he came in. I continued staring at this random guy and then.. I heard him tell his name to the receptionist.
Needless to say, it completely made my day after having to starve myself and having probes inserted in areas which I shall not name.
and no I didn’t ask for photos because I...
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More negative review of Asuncion...
emlary:
This review is wrong on so many levels but it gets one thing right that even I can’t deny: “It’s never a good sign that the audience knows to clap only when the actors appear for the curtain call.”
. BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE The momentary relief one gets laughing at one-liners in Jesse Eisenberg’s new play “Asuncion” are insufficient to compensate for its fatal weaknesses. Rattlestick...
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Tiny Toby spoke no known language perfectly, but he spoke them all. In...
– Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre (page 107)
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on...
– Gregory Maguire (via misswallflower)
October 2011
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...
– Anthony Bourdain via travel-bugg (via petitpoulailler)
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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we...
– André Dubus (via creatingaquietmind)
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Socially adept off-Broadway →
mikidagreat:
Jesse Eisenberg. An all-weather talent. Snowed us in “The Social Network.” Now shining in off-Broadway’s “Asuncion” at the Cherry Lane. He’s playwright and star. So, what’s it mean? And what’s the pronunciation?
“Some pronounce it ‘Asunseeyon,’ ” said Jesse. “Others, how I call it, ‘Asunshun.’ The title refers to Mary. It deals with a religious experience paralleling Mary’s...
Jesse Eisenberg has parlayed a brainy, made-in-New York brand of awkwardness...
– Adam Green on Jesse Eisenberg, Vogue, Nov 2011 (via emlary)
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