"As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates."

-- Patricia Heaton

#Song Quotes #Children Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“Without literature my life would be miserable.”
“Pay close attention to any flame of enthusiasm.”
“I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.”
“Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.”
“I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.”
“Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.”
“Of course Iâ€™m going to learn from the greatsâ€”Ronnie Lott, Ed Reed, Troy Polamalu. But thereâ€™s a lot of unfinished work they didnâ€™t do. I want to be the standard. I want to redefine what it means to be a safety.”
“It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).”

Source : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.

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