"Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Joan Juliet Buck

#Fun Quotes #Book Quotes #People Quotes

“I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?”
“One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.”
“I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me”

Source : Song: Wonderland, Album: Perfectionist, 2011
“To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.”
“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“Part of wearing a tee is saying, 'I'm comfortable and casual.'”
“What is so liberating about this whole business is when you see that big movies are going to come out and then you see them up in Malibu in the little triplex theatre a week later and you think, this is show business. This is the great movie career. And it's all funded in the shoe box.”

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