"I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by."

-- Misty Upham

#Lonely Quotes #Home Quotes #Nursing Quotes

“Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.”
“I don't say everything, but I paint everything.”
“I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel like I was more of a master of language than I had been before. That was challenging and gratifying in so many ways. Then with these new poems, I've gone back to free verse, because it would be easy to paint myself into a corner with form. I saw myself becoming more opaque with the formal poems than I wanted to be. It took me a long time to work back into free verse again. That was a challenge in itself. You're always having to push yourself.”
“Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.”
“People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.”

Source : "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.
“When we prioritize and focus... and that becomes the anchor... the relationship becomes the anchor... and it trumphs everything else... than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving... because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.”

Source : "Evolving From Control to Connection Parenting". Interview with Allison Sutter, www.chicagonow.com. October 13, 2015.
“The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?”
“I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.”

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