"People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver."

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Helen Garner

#People Quotes #Justice Quotes #Demand Quotes

“I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.”
“I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “The Dark City”, p.72, Penguin
“I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.”
“I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.”
“The soufflÃ© is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.”
“I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.”
“There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”

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