"I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die"

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Debra Dean

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Father Quotes

“I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.”
“If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.”
“Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.”
“We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.”

Source : John Zerzan (2015). “Why Hope?: The Stand Against Civilization”, p.106, Feral House
“My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”
“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
“I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.”
“The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?”

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