"Humor - I see it as a survival skill."

-- Jill McCorkle

#Skills Quotes #Survival Quotes

“I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball.”
“Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136
“When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.”

Source : Charlotte Lamb (1980). “Crescendo”, Harlequin Books
“I always have a plan, but itâ€™s like the plan for a journey. Once youâ€™re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something thatâ€™s just as you planned it, then you havenâ€™t created art.”
“When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.”
“I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.”
“For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.”

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