"Popularity can be a real headache."

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Source : Michele Jaffe (2010). “Rosebush”, p.237, Penguin

Michele Jaffe

#Real Quotes #Headache Quotes #Popularity Quotes

“He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.”
“When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he was in need of repentance, or conversion: he did it to be among people who need forgiveness, among us sinners, and to take upon himself the burden of our sins.”
“You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.”
“In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.”

Source : "My Conversation With an Astronaut". Interview with Ben Arnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.
“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
“Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.”
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“What I had to do was learn how to tell stories with my pictures. At first I didn't even know what that meant because I thought I was already doing it. After all these years of drawing stories and trying to teach it, I think it boils down to a pretty simple rule: it takes time to get to know the characters in a book and the world they inhabit. My first sketches are always horrible. Stereotypical. Contrived. Generic. I have to put in the time in order to deepen them and have it all mean something.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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