Quotes
Authors
Alison Hawthorne Deming
"I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful." --
Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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“Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.”
Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves”
“Every movie I’ve made is different, but it’s because I’m different. I’m not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999.”
Source : "Gregg Araki: apocalypse now and again". Interview with Patrik Sandberg, www.dazeddigital.com. March 6, 2015.
“Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.”
“There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.”
“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”
Source : Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Remember Me?”, p.290, Random House
“We gotta show up tomorrow ready to eat somebody's face.”
“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”