"It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family."

-- Mary Karr

#Family Quotes #Running Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.”

Source : "Ross. Gets all gun-ho. About gangland. In LA". www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2008.
“For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but it's not done. There's a very famous composer from the '70s from a well-known family that disowned him, and he's a man, so there's this historical precedence with their relationships with musicians - not so much music as it's this abstract thing - but externally with artists.”

Source : Source: www.acclaimmag.com
“I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.”
“Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.”
“If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.”
“I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.”

Source : Jo Grimond (1979). “Memoirs”, David & Charles Publishers
“This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.”
“Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.”

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