"I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people."

-- Allegra Huston

#Girl Quotes #Taken Quotes #California Quotes

“Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.”
“I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.”
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

Source : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.
“Itâ€™s important for people to know that Iâ€™m still focused on football... Iâ€™m handling my business to get ready for the next season.”
“No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.”
“Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.”
“I've always been reasonably fatalistic.”
“The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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