"You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death."

-- Mallory Ortberg

#Parent Quotes #Events Quotes #Care Quotes

“It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.”

Source : "Pauline Neville-Jones: 'Some say I didn't make it easy on myself'". Interview with Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.
“Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.”
“I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.”
“I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.”
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
“The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.”

Source : John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books
“Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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