"I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it."

-- Melanie Benjamin

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Closets Quotes

“At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.”
“Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.”
“I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time youâ€™d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldnâ€™t know the outcome for a long time.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin
“If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are”
“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”
“There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.”
“Donâ€™t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.”

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