"I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating."

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Source : "Nude Men". Book by Amanda Filipacchi, 1993.

Amanda Filipacchi

#Reading Quotes #Men Quotes #Important Quotes

“Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.”
“Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.”
“God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
“Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.”

Source : "Interview: Isaiah Washington Talks to S&A About Tapping into the Mind of the Beltway Sniper in ‘Blue Caprice’". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2013.
“I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I look back on them all the time and constantly feel like I owe it to the other projects that I've made that have gotten me to where I am.”
“I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so...I ignored it for a few hours.”
“There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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