"Even murderers, I suppose, experience the loss of car keys the way the rest of us do. I mean, how can they not? Once you make this person scramble around the house looking for her car keys and finally find them, get in the car, and run into traffic, we can identify with her enough that when she stops the car and pulls the gun out of her purse and heads in to kill somebody, we'll be with her as much as is possible."

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Alice Mattison

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes

“I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.”
“How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered. How this can happen is a mystery to us.”

Source : "Probe Begins Into U.S. Bombing That Killed Four Canadians". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2002.
“I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.”
“You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer”

Source : "Sachin Tendulkar survived pressure of expectation to unite a nation" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2013.
“A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.”

Source : "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.
“Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.”
“It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.”
“Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.”

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