"I used to murder people for money, but these days itâ€™s more of a survival technique."

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Source : "Widow's Web". Book by Jennifer Estep, August 21, 2012.

Jennifer Estep

#People Quotes #Survival Quotes #Technique Quotes

“I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Everytime I say "sure" when I mean "no," everytime I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ***** inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter "T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.”
“I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.”
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”

Source : "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.
“We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.”
“Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.”
“I borrow bits from everyone.”
“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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