"After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales."

-- Lisa Jakub

#Children Quotes #Years Quotes #Careers Quotes

“I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.”
“Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, When we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. JUST DO IT.”
“In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.”
“I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.”

Source : "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.
“Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Companyâ€™s in trouble, and we have to help them. Weâ€™re in reserve, so we have to go. And if weâ€™re shelled, weâ€™re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.”
“I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it,”

Source : "Alexa Chung on Body Image: 'Just Because I Exist in this Shape Doesn't Mean I'm Advocating It'". Interview with Hayley Phelan, fashionista.com. October 12, 2012.
“Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.”

Source : "The moments that last". Interview with Susie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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