"Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Jason Mulgrew

#School Quotes #High School Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.”
“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)”
“I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.”
“Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.”
“Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.87, Penguin
“Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.”

Source : Guillermo Arriaga, F. G. Haghenbeck, Reyna Grande, Laura Esquivel, Javier Valdes (2013). “Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty hilarious song. It's a good pick-me-up in the car.”
“I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.”

Source : "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.

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