"My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?"

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Porochista Khakpour

#Character Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Mad Quotes

“I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. May 31, 2001.
“Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.”
“I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.”
“It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.”
“The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.”
“I know no such thing as genius, â€” genius is nothing but labor and diligence.”
“I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.”

Source : "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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