"Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan."

-- Heather O'Neill

#Stars Quotes #Children Quotes #Fall Quotes

“We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.”
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisionsâ€”we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin
“Silence is so important when you're working, You must have periods where you don't hear anything, just to reflect on you've already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you're working on.”
“Who could forget Malcolm Devon?”
“Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.”
“There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.”
“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”

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