"How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids."

-- Anne Nicol Gaylor

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Eight Quotes

“Age is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them.”
“I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.”
“We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.”
“After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.”
“Age ain't nothing but a number, that's what Chi-Ali said. OK, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?”
“You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.”

Source : "How Did 'Blue Valentine' Change Our Concept Of Nc-17?" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2015.
“I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”
“What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country music.”

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