World Introvert Day - January 2:

World Introvert Day

January 2

This is a day for the dreamers.

The thinkers.

The quiet ones.

The ones sitting in the back of the room or standing at the edges.

The ones who know more than they show and feel more than they let on.

Today we celebrate introverts.

– Jenn Granneman.

#WorldIntrovertDay

Introvert insight:

 
Don’t underestimate me because I’m quiet.

I know more than I say, think more than I speak and observe more than you know.

– Michaela Chung.

I over-simplify and say I don’t like people,

when what I actually dislike are the surface-level interactions of most social gatherings.

– Rachel Ginder.

 

I simply don’t shine in company.

Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

– Barbara Hambly.

 

Not all introverts are shy.

You just haven’t seen them with their close friends circle.

- The Minds Journal

 

Some people tremble at the idea of being alone.

I don’t understand.

I love my solitude.

My energy is never leeched; my feelings are never hurt.

I treat myself well, I entertain myself, but it’s peaceful.

– Sylvester McNutt.

 

The older I get,

the more I would rather sit alone,

in silence,

than with people who judge the way I live.

– Kristen Butler.

The smarter you get, the less you speak.

You grow to realize not everyone is worth confrontation.

Your time is valuable.

Your energy is priceless.

You won’t waste either on people who don’t deserve them.

- The Minds Journal

Jhumpa Lahiri, on books:

 That's what books are for ... to travel without moving an inch.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Recommended reading - Silent Movies The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

 

Silent Movies
The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

by Peter Kobel.
Preface by Martin Scorsese.
Foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
 
Published by Little, Brown and Company.
Published 2007.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0316117919
ISBN-13: 978-0316117913
 
Description:
 

Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their immortal films.

 

Silent Movies also looks at the technology of early film, the use of color photography, and the restoration work being spearheaded by some of Hollywood's most important directors, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

 

Richly illustrated from the Library of Congress's extensive collection of posters, paper prints, film stills, and memorabilia – most of which have never been in print – Silent Movies is an important work of history that will also be a sought-after gift book for all lovers of film.

 

"If you ever wondered why film buffs get weak in the knees about the movies made before talkies, this book can help you understand. . . . it is beautifully designed with a dazzling array of movie stills, posters and promo material drawn from the Library of Congress' memorabilia collection." – San Francisco Chronicle.
 
"The definitive visual history of silent film." – New York Daily News.
 
"A handsomely designed and illustrated pictorial history of the voiceless cinema." – Los Angeles Times.
 
"A ravishing, oversize, million-pound study of the silent movie era, not just its films, but its promotion, its culture and the way these movies changed how we think about the world." – Washington Post Express.
 
"Kobel has lovingly detailed this world-from the zany publicity campaigns to the lavish scripts to the decadent star lifestyles. SILENT MOVIES is an essential addition to any film or design lover's library." – Encore magazine.
 
"Spectacular." – The New York Times.
 
"This isn't a coffee table book, though any coffee table would be lucky to be graced by it. The excellent text manages the trick of being exhaustive without being exhausting, while the photos – and stills, and posters, and lobby cards – are enchanting." – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal Online.

Born on this day – William Humphrey:

William Humphrey

Actor

Director

Writer

January 2, 1863 – October 4, 1942

Credits:

A House Divided (1919); A Husband's Trick (1913); A Message from Beyond (1911); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909); A Princess of Bagdad (1913); A Slight Mistake (1911); A Southern Soldier's Sacrifice (1911); A Strange Adventure (1932); A Tale of Two Cities (1911); Aflame in the Sky (1927); An Aeroplane Elopement (1911); An Affair for the Police (1914); An Infernal Tangle (1913); An Unwritten Chapter (1913); Are We Civilized? (1934); Atonement (1919); Babbling Tongues (1917); Beau Brummel (1924); Benedict Arnold (1909); Captain Mary Brown (1913); Cheating Blondes (1933); City of Shadows (1927); Curtain at Eight (1933); Dangerous Innocence (1925); Devil-May-Care (1929); Dick Tracy (1937); Drusilla with a Million (1925); Every Inch a Man (1912); False Pretenses (1935); Fathers of Men (1916); Find the Witness (1937); Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds (1914); Foolish Monte Carlo (1920); For Another's Crime (1915); Forgotten; or, an Answered Prayer (1911); From Out of the Past (1916); Get That Man (1935); Haldane of the Secret Service (1923); Hearts of the First Empire (1913); Hearts of Women (1914); Hearts to Let (1915); Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes (1912); Heredity (1915); His Dominant Passion (1914); His Life for His Emperor (1913); His Wedded Wife (1914); Husks (1916); In Neighboring Kingdoms (1910); Jean and the Waif (1910); Jean Rescues (1911); Joan of Plattsburg (1918); King Lear (1909); Lady Robinhood (1925); Les Miserables (Part I) (1909); Life's Crossroads (1927); Madame Racketeer (1932); Manhattan Parade (1931); Maria's Sacrifice (1914); Mixed Identities (1913); Mr. Barnes of New York (1914); Mr. Bingle's Melodrama (1914); Murder at Midnight (1931); My Lady of Idleness (1913); Napoleon and the Empress Josephine (1909); Napoleon, the Man of Destiny (1908); Nocturne in E-Flat (1914); None But the Brave Deserve the Fair (1912); Nothing to Wear (1912); Oliver Twist (1909); On Her Wedding Night (1915); On the Turn of a Card (1915); One Night in Rome (1924); One Year Later (1933); Picciola; or, the Prison Flower (1911); Planting the Spring Garden (1912); Playing the Pipers (1913); Polishing Up (1914); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); Red and White Roses (1913); Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy (1910); Ruy Blas (1909); Sam's Sweetheart (1915); Scaramouche (1923); Secret Sinners (1933); Selecting His Heiress (1911); Subway Express (1931); Tangled Destinies (1932); Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927); Tested by the Flag (1911); That College Life (1913); The Actress (1928); The Arizona Express (1924); The Awakening of Barbara Dare (1914); The Bogus Napoleon (1912); The Butler's Secret (1913); The Butterfly's Lesson (1915); The Chains of an Oath (1913); The Cobbler and the Caliph (1909); The Cowboy Counsellor (1932); The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934); The Dandy, or Mr. Dawson Turns the Tables (1912); The Danger Girl (1926); The Death of King Edward III (1911); The Dice Woman (1926); The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924); The Drudge (1914); The Duke's Jester or A Fool's Revenge (1909); The Fighting Pilot (1935); The Flirt (1913); The Flower of the Hills (1915); The Footlights of Fate (1916); The French Spy (1912); The Freshet (1911); The General's Daughter (1911); The Girl and the Judge; or, A Terrible Temptation (1910); The Glove (1913); The Godless Girl (1928); The Gold Hunters (1925); The Golden Hoard; or, Buried Alive (1913); The Good in the Worst of Us (1915); The Governor Who Had a Heart (1912); The Heart of the King's Jester (1912); The Judgment of Solomon (1909); The Lady of the Lake (1912); The Life of Moses (1909) (1909); The Life of Napoleon (1909); The Line-Up (1913); The Man Life Passed By (1923); The Man That Might Have Been (1914); The Man Who Knew (1914); The Midnight Bride (1920); The Midnight Limited (1926); The Military Air-Scout (1911); The Millionaire's Hundred Dollar Bill (1915); The Money Kings (1912); The Penalties of Reputation (1913); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); The Plainsman (1936); The Price of Vanity (1914); The Public Menace (1935); The Radium Thieves (1915); The Return of Maurice Donnelly (1915); The Scar (1915); The Scarlet Car (1917); The Scoop (1912); The Secret Seven (1916); The Senator's Brother (1914); The Shadow of Fear (1915); The Silent Lover (1926); The Slightly Worn Gown (1915); The Snare of Fate (1913); The Social Code (1923); The Song of the Ghetto (1914); The Spirit of Christmas (1913); The Strangers' Banquet (1922); The Three of Them (1910); The Trap (1913); The Unchastened Woman (1918); The Unholy Three (1925); The Upper Hand (1914); The Vampire Bat (1933); The Volga Boatman (1926); The Way of a Woman (1919); The Way of the Cross (1909); The Way of the Transgressor (1915); The Wife Whom God Forgot (1920); The Wrong Patient (1911); Three Wise Crooks (1925); To Cherish and Protect (1915); Twelfth Night (1910); Two Men and a Woman (1917); Uncle Bill (1914); Vanity Fair (1923); Washington Under the American Flag (1909); Washington Under the British Flag (1909); Yours to Command (1927).

Born on this day – Oscar Micheaux:

Oscar Micheaux

Writer

Director

Producer

January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951

Credits:

The Betrayal (1948); The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940); Lying Lips (1939); Birthright (1938); God's Step Children (1938); Swing! (1938); Underworld (1937); Murder in Harlem (1935); Temptation (1935); Harlem After Midnight (1934); Phantom of Kenwood (1933); Black Magic (1932); The Girl from Chicago (1932); Ten Minutes to Live (1932); Veiled Aristocrats (1932); The Darktown Revue (1931); The Exile (1931); Easy Street (1930); A Daughter of the Congo (1930); Wages of Sin (1929); When Men Betray (1928); Thirty Years Later (1928); The House Behind the Cedars (1927); The Millionaire (1927); The Broken Violin (1927); The Spider's Web (1927); The Conjure Woman (1926); The Devil's Disciple (1926); Marcus Garland (1925); Body and Soul (1925); A Son of Satan (1924); Birthright (1924); The Virgin of Seminole (1923); Deceit (1923); Uncle Jasper's Will (1922); The Dungeon (1922); The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921); The Hypocrite (1921); The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920); The Brute (1920); Within Our Gates (1920); The Homesteader (1919).

Born on this day – Florence Lawrence:

 

Florence Lawrence

Actress

January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938

Credits:

Night Must Fall (1937); Hollywood Boulevard (1936); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Yellow Dust (1936); The Crusades (1935); Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935); The Old Fashioned Way (1934); The Silk Express (1933); Secrets (1933); Sinners in the Sun (1932); So Big! (1932); The Hard Hombre (1931); Pleasure (1931); Homicide Squad (1931); Sweeping Against the Winds (1930); The Greater Glory (1926); The Johnstown Flood (1926); Gambling Wives (1924); Lucretia Lombard (1923); The Satin Girl (1923); The Unfoldment (1922); The Love Craze (1918); Face on the Screen (1917); Elusive Isabel (1916); A Singular Sinner (1914); The Woman Who Won (1914); A Mysterious Mystery (1914); Counterfeiters (1914); The Honor of the Humble (1914); The Mad Man's Ward (1914); Her Ragged Knight (1914); A Singular Cynic (1914); The Doctor's Testimony (1914); A Disenchantment (1914); The Bribe (1914); The Pawns of Destiny (1914); The Little Mail Carrier (1914); Diplomatic Flo (1914); The Honeymooners (1914); The Stepmother (1914); The Law's Decree (1914); The False Bride (1914); The Romance of a Photograph (1914); The Coryphee (1914); A Girl and Her Money (1913); The Influence of Sympathy (1913); Unto the Third Generation (1913); His Wife's Child (1913); The Spender (1913); The Closed Door (1913); Was Mabel Cured? (1912); The Lady Leone (1912); Sisters (1912); The Redemption of Riverton (1912); The Angel of the Studio (1912); The Cross-Roads (1912); Betty's Nightmare (1912); Tangled Relations (1912); The Advent of Jane (1912); Flo's Discipline (1912); All for Love (1912); After All (1912); The Winning Punch (1912); Her Cousin Fred (1912); The Chance Shot (1912); The Mill Buyers (1912); Taking a Chance (1912); Not Like Other Girls (1912); The Players (1912); In Swift Waters (1912); A Village Romance (1912); The American Girl (1911); Art Versus Music (1911); A Girlish Impulse (1911); A Head for Business (1911); A Blind Deception (1911); His Chorus Girl Wife (1911); Aunt Jane's Legacy (1911); One on Reno (1911); A Rural Conqueror (1911); The Maniac (1911); The Slavey's Affinity (1911); The Matchmaker (1911); The Life Saver (1911); The Story of Rosie's Rose (1911); Romance of Pond Cove (1911); The Secret (1911); A Rebellious Blossom (1911); Through Jealous Eyes (1911); Her Two Sons (1911); The Gypsy (1911); During Cherry Time (1911); The Snare of Society (1911); Always a Way (1911); The Little Rebel (1911); Higgenses Versus Judsons (1911); Duke De Ribbon Counter (1911); The Professor's Ward (1911); A Game of Deception (1911); The State Line (1911); A Good Turn (1911); Her Humble Ministry (1911); That Awful Brother (1911); A Fascinating Bachelor (1911); The Sheriff and the Man (1911); The Hoyden (1911); The Two Fathers (1911); Opportunity and the Man (1911); The Wife's Awakening (1911); Her Child's Honor (1911); Her Artistic Temperament (1911); The Actress and the Singer (1911); His Friend, the Burglar (1911); Vanity and Its Cure (1911); Nan's Diplomacy (1911); The Test (1911); A Show Girl's Stratagem (1911); Age Versus Youth (1911); His Bogus Uncle (1911); The Count of Montebello (1910); All the World's a Stage (1910); Pressed Roses (1910); Debt (1910); The Right Girl (1910); The Widow (1910); The Taming of Jane (1910); The Senator's Double (1910); Among the Roses (1910); Once Upon a Time (1910); The Irony of Fate (1910); Bear Ye One Another's Burdens (1910); Old Heads and Young Hearts (1910); The Call of the Circus (1910); A Game for Two (1910); A Self-Made Hero (1910); A Discontented Woman (1910); The Nichols on Vacation (1910); A Reno Romance (1910); The Eternal Triangle (1910); The Doctor's Perfidy (1910); Two Men (1910); The New Shawl (1910); The Maelstrom (1910); The Rosary (1910); His Second Wife (1910); The Miser's Daughter (1910); Transfusion (1910); The Stage Note (1910); His Sick Friend (1910); The Time-Lock Safe (1910); The Broken Oath (1910); Mother Love (1910); The New Minister (1910); The Governor's Pardon (1910); Jane and the Stranger (1910); The Blind Man's Tact (1910); Justice in the Far North (1910); The Coquette's Suitors (1910); A Rose of the Philippines (1910); Never Again (1910); The Tide of Fortune (1910); The Right of Love (1910); The Winning Punch (1910); The Awakening of Bess (1909); Florence Lawrence in Lest We Forget (1909); Her Generous Way (1909); The Forest Ranger's Daughter (1909); Nursing a Viper (1909); Love's Stratagem (1909); Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909); The Hessian Renegades (1909); Mrs. Jones' Lover; or, 'I Want My Hat' (1909); Mr. Jones' Burglar (1909); The Mended Lute (1909); The Slave (1909); Sweet and Twenty (1909); Jealousy and the Man (1909); Tender Hearts (1909); The Cardinal's Conspiracy (1909); The Country Doctor (1909); The Necklace (1909); The Way of Man (1909); The Peachbasket Hat (1909); Her First Biscuits (1909); The Lonely Villa (1909); What Drink Did (1909); Eradicating Aunty (1909); Two Memories (1909); Eloping with Auntie (1909); The Judgment of Solomon (1909); Resurrection (1909); The Jilt (1909); A Baby's Shoe (1909); Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909); The French Duel (1909); One Busy Hour (1909); The Note in the Shoe (1909); The Eavesdropper (1909); Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good (1909); Lucky Jim (1909); The Drive for a Life (1909); A Troublesome Satchel (1909); Lady Helen's Escapade (1909); Confidence (1909); The Winning Coat (1909); A Sound Sleeper (1909); Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade (1909); Trying to Get Arrested (1909); The Road to the Heart (1909); A Drunkard's Reformation (1909); The Medicine Bottle (1909); Jones and His New Neighbors (1909); The Deception (1909); And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (1909); The Lure of the Gown (1909); I Did It (1909); The Salvation Army Lass (1909); The Wooden Leg (1909); The Roue's Heart (1909); A Fool's Revenge (1909); The Prussian Spy (1909); His Wife's Mother (1909); Saul and David (1909); At the Altar (1909); At the Crossroads of Life (1908); The Golden Louis (1909); The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909); His Ward's Love (1909); The Curtain Pole (1909); Tragic Love (1909); A Wreath in Time (1909); The Brahma Diamond (1909); The Girls and Daddy (1909); The Cord of Life (1909); The Adventures of Dollie (1908); Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909); The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909); Those Boys! (1909); The Criminal Hypnotist (1909); The Sacrifice (1909); Love Finds a Way (1909); The Honor of Thieves (1909); Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909); One Touch of Nature (1909); The Reg Girl (1908); The Helping Hand (1908); Mr. Jones at the Ball (1908); The Christmas Burglars (1908); The Dancer and the King: A Romantic Story of Spain (1908); An Awful Moment (1908); The Test of Friendship (1908); The Reckoning (1908); The Feud and the Turkey (1908); The Valet's Wife (1908); Money Mad (1908); Julius Caesar (1908); The Clubman and the Tramp (1908); A Woman's Way (1908); The Ingrate (1908); The Song of the Shirt (1908); The Taming of the Shrew (1908); The Pirate's Gold (1908); Antony and Cleopatra (1908); After Many Years (1908); Concealing a Burglar (1908); Romance of a Jewess (1908); The Planter's Wife (1908); The Vaquero's Vow (1908); Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908); Father Gets in the Game (1908); The Zulu's Heart (1908); The Devil (1908); The Stolen Jewels (1908); Richard III (1908); A Smoked Husband (1908); Where the Breakers Roar (1908); The Heart of O Yama (1908); The Red Girl (1908); Behind the Scenes (1908); The Girl and the Outlaw (1908); Betrayed by a Handprint (1908); Salome (1908); The Bandit's Waterloo (1908); Love Laughs at Locksmiths; an 18th Century Romance (1908); The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen (1908); Lady Jane's Flight (1908); Romeo and Juliet (1908); Macbeth (1908); Cupid's Realm; or, A Game of Hearts (1908); The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines (1907); The Mill Girl (1907); The Shaughraun (1907); Bargain Fiend; or, Shopping à la Mode (1907); Athletic American Girls (1907); The Boy, the Bust and the Bath (1907); Daniel Boone (1907); The Automobile Thieves (1906).