"On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device."

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George Saunders

#People Quotes #Poop Quotes #Nastiness Quotes

“I look in the mirror and it's hard for me. I am really thin. I want to look fit and beautiful and sexy, and I can't.”

Source : "Giuliana Rancic: I know I'm too thin" by Aili Nahas, people.com. April 01, 2015.
“I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me”
“When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.”
“Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.”
“When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2011). “Comanche Magic”, p.51, Penguin
“All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.”
“Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.24, Grove Press
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.”

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