Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)
It is only when the mind, which has taken shelter behind the walls of self-protection, frees itself from its own creations that there can be that exquisite reality. After all, these walls of self-protection are the creations of the mind which, conscious of its insufficiency, builds these walls of protection, and behind them takes shelter. One has built up these barriers unconsciously or consciously, and one’s mind is so crippled, bound, held, that action brings greater conflict, further disturbances. So the mere search for the solution of your problems is not going to free the mind from creating further problems. As long as this centre of self-protectiveness, born of insufficiency, exists, there must be disturbances, tremendous sorrow and pain; and you cannot free the mind of sorrow by disciplining it not to be insufficient. […] You cannot compel it; you cannot force it; it cannot be influenced by an ideal, by a fear, by the pursuit of enjoyment and powers. - J. Krishnamurti
Be still and know that I am God - Psalm 46:10
Adele - Someone Like You (2011 VMA Performance)
Brings me to tears.
This performance was just amazingly moving playing my heart strings to the beat.
If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you. —Tim Burton
Helena Bonham Carter on her father.
Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior. - Emma Watson
![“You know Jo wrote this incredible female role and I think unprecedented in the fact that she is not just an equal to the boys, but actually in some respects you can see that she’s a stronger fighter, she’s a stonger witch. And that just doesn’t happen in blockbuster movies. Women just tend to be sort of like, generally sort of pretty sidekicks and Hermione isn’t that at all.” [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnuw05IZ4P1qzerjgo1_r6_500.gif)
“You know Jo wrote this incredible female role and I think unprecedented in the fact that she is not just an equal to the boys, but actually in some respects you can see that she’s a stronger fighter, she’s a stonger witch. And that just doesn’t happen in blockbuster movies. Women just tend to be sort of like, generally sort of pretty sidekicks and Hermione isn’t that at all.” [x]
