"The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people."

-- Nicholson Baker

#People Quotes #Upset Quotes #Want Quotes

“I've always been a bit of a car freak.”
“Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.”
“The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.”
“Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.”
“I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.”

Source : Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”
“I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.”

Source : "Not My Job: Comedian Jenny Slate Gets Quizzed On Jennifer Lopez". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.
“It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.”
“Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.”

Source : "Woodstock", www.imdb.com. 1970.

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