"How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Pain Quotes #Character Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.”

Source : Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28
“My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.”
“It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.”
“I have proven a danger to both myself and those around me when carrying these weapons. I'm extraordinarily clumsy.”

Source : "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.
“Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.”
“Then it crosses my mind, â€˜But Iâ€™m a very busy woman! I donâ€™t have time for a stroke!â€™”
“A lot of times, films tell stories about the time we live in. So when making history, itÂ´s just as important to give the female perspective as well as the male. We need female voices. Take a risk. Be personal.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“When I was 18 years old, there was no internet and no gay teen nights. Instead, you went to the clubs and talked to grown men and did grown-up things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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