"I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff."

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Source : "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.

Stella Vine

#Running Quotes #School Quotes #Son Quotes

“With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.”
“The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.”
“I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.”
“Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.”
“There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.”
“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.42, Hachette UK
“The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.”
“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2013). “The Human Machine: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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