"I was ten,â€ I said. â€œGive me a little credit.â€ â€œTo a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respectâ€”but not credit. Or life insurance.â€ Abraham sounded amused. â€œYou are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child."

-- Brandon Sanderson

#Children Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.”

Source : Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.
“Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.”
“Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.”
“In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.”
“I wasn't one of those kids that was like I'm going to be a country music singer or I'm going to be the next Pat Green and stuff. Hell, I didn't even think it was possible. I wrote to write. It wasn't even a thought in my head that I could do it professionally.”
“I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable. I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him. Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way... it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com

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