"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone."

-- Ashley Montagu

#Country Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Together Quotes

“Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.”

Source : "Exclusive: David Oyelowo Discusses His Roles in “96 Minutes,” “The Butler,” and More" by Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. April 19, 2012.
“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.”
“I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.”
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”
“Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.”
“Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.”
“I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.”
“Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.”

Source : Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.187, Random House

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