I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea of embracing the moments between significant events in life, rather than just focusing on the main achievements.
Andy Warhol highlights the beauty of the in-between moments of life, suggesting that the time spent waiting or 'being between roles' is valuable in its own right. It encourages us to appreciate the transitions and pauses that occur in our lives, as they often shape our experiences and perspectives just as much as the roles we actively play.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth and the value of downtime.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.
Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
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