"The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways."

-- Johnnetta B. Cole

#Daughter Quotes #Profound Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.”
“If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.”
“Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.”

Source : "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.
“Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers. That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is. There is no American or Frenchhistory. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.”
“I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.”
“I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it.”

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