"[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy."

-- Said Sayrafiezadeh

#Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.”
“All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.”
“You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.”
“I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.”
“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”
“Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.”

Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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