"We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure."

-- Jonathan Tropper

#Couple Quotes #Toxic Quotes #Scared Quotes

“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.”
“What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."”
“If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more peace of mind, wouldn't we?”
“If I could sing, it would be lovely.”
“What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.”
“I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?”
“I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.”

Source : "Exclusive: Stream ‘The Rover’ score, plus a Q&A with its director and composer". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. June 27, 2014.

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