"Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were."

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Hallie Ephron

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #House Quotes

“People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.”
“Another related source of demonization is the homosexual relationship itself...That attachment and communion are indeed inspired, but their source is demonic.”

Source : "Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual". Book by Andrew Comiskey, 1988.
“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.”
“I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.”
“I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.”
“Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.”
“If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.”
“Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain.”

Source : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 4, 2016.

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