"As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers."

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Source : "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

Simon Beaufoy

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”

Source : Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing
“I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.”
“Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis”

Source : "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford" by Warren Murray, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.
“A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.”
“I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.”
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
“There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”
“Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.”

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