"I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Rosemarie DeWitt

#Dark Quotes #Light Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.”
“Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach thishidden text to her daughter. The mother's warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.”
“Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.”
“Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.”
“One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.”
“After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.”
“A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you...but all the same, no matter which way you view it, they don't love you...and your heart doesn't know how to beat the same.”
“English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.”

Source : Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House

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