"It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead."

-- Dalia Grybauskaite

#Mother Quotes #Males Quotes #Study Quotes

“I had been DJing a dance night in Brooklyn and witnessed the response people had to "The Devil's Dancers" - Oppenheimer's one hit song. All these young people were dancing to this amazing song, completely unaware of whether it was current or not. It was from 1982, but sounded very current. It made sense that a physical record should exist for this song again. It seemed the obvious choice to represent what Minimal Wave was going to be.”
“... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?”
“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”
“I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.”

Source : "Lucy Griffiths Talks TRUE BLOOD, Auditioning to Play Nora, and Talking With Fangs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 22, 2012.
“A severe war lurks under the show of peace.”

Source : "De Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris" by Claudianus, 307,
“To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.”
“We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.”
“One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.”

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