"A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything."

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Lee Grant

#Stars Quotes #Names Quotes #Down And Quotes

“I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?”
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.”

Source : "Q&A: Cheryl Hines on Suburgatory and Being 'Cheryl'". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2012.
“For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.”
“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”
“It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.”
“Right now, our mother -- our mother -- all of our mothers, Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future. You can help us win the battle to clean up our air, our water, our land, to protect our forests, our oceans and our wildlife.”

Source : "Jonas Brothers among Kids' Choice winners" by Noela Hueso, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 29, 2009.
“It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless”

Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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