and the feelings that scare her become her relief. | We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing —...

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does things — I write, I act — and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Stephen Fry (via rachelshead)
(via teachingliteracy)

Posted on February 27, 2012 via RACHEL'S HEAD- with 4,875 notes

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