"For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure."

--

Source : "Why we're still seduced by the romcom" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

Mariella Frostrup

#Dream Quotes #Motherhood Quotes #Reality Quotes

“In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.”
“I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.”
“The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.”
“I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.”
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.”

Source : "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.
“Don't throw yourself at someone because of who you think they are, throw yourself at someone because you know you're both in it for the memories.”

You may also like:

Dan Savage
Author
Gina Bellman
Actress
Jack Davenport
Actor
Jay Rayner
Journalist
John Humphrys
Author
Paul Weller
Musician
Peaches Geldof
Journalist
Sarah Hall
Novelist
Oliver Parker
Film director