"The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac."

-- John Lanchester

#Personality Quotes #Shy Quotes #Type Quotes

“These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.”
“If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.”
“I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace -- all we need is a fighting chance.”
“I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.”
“I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.”
“I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.”
“By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.”

Source : John M. Swomley, Americans for Religious Liberty (1997). “Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist”

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