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Authors
Christian Picciolini
"There are also people that still choose to support racist rhetoric because they feel white dominance in America is slipping through their fingers. To them, "diversity" is a codeword for white genocide. They claim that their "homelands" are being overrun by minorities and are desperate for solutions that ensure their "white survival." This fear, of course, is irrational and solely based on a loss of white power and control." --
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Christian Picciolini
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“I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.”
“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”
“You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like ***** or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose.”
Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.”
“A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.”
“George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.”
“One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.”
“I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.”
Source : Song: Is That All There Is?, 2003
