“We spend so much time hating ourselves, and not thinking we are good enough, but 2012 is a time to rejoice and begin to love ones own self completely without the desires of validation from others. It is that desire for someone else to qualify us that destroys artists. ”
—Nicole Anne Robbins
January 2012
“The beginning of the end of the world to me means that the projections I have, the fears I have, all that negativity that is in my life is no longer, and it is a new era for me.”
—Nicole Anne Robbins
December 2011
Things from 2011 that need to stay in 2011
- insecurities and self loathing
- the feeling of being stuck
- relapses and depression
- laziness or fear of failure: the fear to start
- starting and stopping: no more stopping, push through
- staying in a relationship/job/place that doesn’t work for me because I’m too afraid to do anything about it
- people who don’t care
- giving my heart away too easily
- letting the wrong people in and keeping the right people out
- walls
- unhealthy attitudes/lifestyles
- staying: its time to leave, to see things, to try things, to be something/someone else
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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
—Søren Kierkegaard (via misswallflower)
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Voyeurism (January 2, 2011)
2011 started out strong, but after returning from a trip to California my inspiration drastically declined. It was turning to film that really brought my work back to life, 120 film specifically. There was something so intimate about developing a roll on the…
this right here is why this young woman is such an amazing inspiration.
the world needs a lot more people like her.
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I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
” —Neil Gaiman (via drinkyourjuice)
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- him: p.s. you're beautiful.
- me: I'm blood and flesh and bones. nothing very beautiful about that.
i hope you find something good, and love it with all that you are.
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Peter Pan
Jinja Safari
Peter Pan - Jinja Safari
still one of my favorite bands.
they just seem so happy.
Bon Iver/ Fleet Foxes Medley
Sam Keeler — Bon Iver/ Fleet Foxes Medley
this actually sounds really good… I was kind of afraid to listen but good gracious its lovely.
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
—Oscar Wilde (via thegrandoptimistt)
awe:)
people are nice.
I love every single person I’ve ever met so much.
I’ve been lucky, no idea how it happened but someone has given me amazing friends and I am grateful.
auditions for singin in the rain.
you know what?
tomorrow I’m just going to sit down, email all of the directors of the shows I want to try out for, send in my information, and work like hell to make myself presentable because I want a good role.
I want it so much.
“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
—Ayn Rand (via nataliekucken)
in 2012 i would like to spend less time thinking about doing,
and more time doing.
Auditions
once upon a mattress
spring awakening
holy cow, there are some good shows coming up!
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“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”
—Neil Gaiman (via itsamadteaparty)
interviews went well.
I met some lovely people and I found out that I really enjoy plain latte’s and the fact that some cafe’s create latte art for you and that type of thing makes me smile and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I also realized that if you smile: people look at you. like, smiling is a novelty. not enough people do it and its sad because life is too short to go around walking with your head down and a permanent scowl on your face. smile. you’ll feel better.
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Write yourself
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
I had a dream last night.
which isn’t anything earth shattering but for someone who rarely remembers her dreams it was kind of important.
I dreamed of the boy who danced with me in my kitchen, the one who told me that it was “a waste” to think that I wasn’t worth anything, the one who picked me up and spun me around outside my house at 2 a.m. and it felt so real because he was there, holding me, telling me that I was beautiful and then I woke up and I remembered that we don’t talk anymore. I remembered that he has a girlfriend now, and that he says that he loves her, and I remembered that I’m not the girl that people fall in love with.
“I don’t remember when it switched over from me thinking it was cute to say I didn’t know how to do anything to it just being embarrassing and everything that is the opposite of cute…Life moves forward whether we’re ready for it or not and whenever we try to resist it, we lose. It’s the same sickness as women who get plastic surgery to turn their face upside down because they think it fools people into thinking they’re younger. But it just makes them look older. We have to learn to embrace the pace life is moving at, because acting like a kid wont turn you back into one. It will just make it harder when you finally realize you have to get on board.”
—Erin Foster in Single Girls Guide-‘Grow the Eff up’ for Hellogiggles (via sophierobson)
