"I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Hope Davis

#Giving Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Stories Quotes

“An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.”
“What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?”
“I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.”
“One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.”
“Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.”
“What's the benefit of hatha yoga? Physical. What do you need to do hatha yoga? Physical body. That's it. Breathing and spirit is a part of any sport. So that's why hatha yoga can be a sport.”
“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”
“Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.”

Source : Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”

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