"death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is"

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Tea Obreht

“mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.”
“Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.”
“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.”
“And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.”
“How is it possible to exist with so much pain?”
“Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.”
“I'm a business man and the reason I linked up with a major was because I understand they have that reach that I can't get no matter how hot I get in the streets. It's not always about money because I been had money. I want to be on TV and win awards. I want to be number one. You need a label to get through barriers.”

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