"Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life."

-- Tryon Edwards

#Character Quotes #Mind Quotes #Dry Quotes

“Teenage girls, please donâ€™t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What Iâ€™ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, itâ€™s so wonderfully fair.”
“As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government.”
“I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.”
“What is life, but one long risk?”
“In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.”
“We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.”

Source : "Sasha Grey: Music is just like the porn industry". Interview with Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.”
“If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'”

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