"Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?"

-- Rosie Thomas

#Children Quotes #Way Quotes #Clear Quotes

“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.”

Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books
“Youâ€™re like Marilyn Monroe,â€™ Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous â€œThank Youâ€. Interrupting, he adds, â€˜Youâ€™re all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because youâ€™re sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say â€œHey! This toy is broken!â€ and toss you aside without feeling bad.”
“For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.”
“With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.”
“Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.”

Source : "Director David Ellis talks Cellular and Final Destination 3". Interview With Brian B., movieweb.com. April 3, 2004.
“To please Godâ€¦ to be a real ingredient in the divine happinessâ€¦ to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”
“I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.”

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