"... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Country Quotes #Stars Quotes #Flower Quotes

“One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.”
“I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.”
“I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If she has six good points and you have one semigood little point, place all of the emphasis on your one semigood little point.”
“I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.”
“When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.”
“Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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