"To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality."

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Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press

Louise Thaden

#Children Quotes #Confused Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind”
“I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.”

Source : Interview With Paul Eide, www.askmen.com.
“When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.”
“My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.”
“He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)”
“I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.”
“Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.”

Source : "Super Bowl and Super Tuesday". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2008.

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