"How'd it go with Leesha?" "It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop!"

-- Cinda Williams Chima

“I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.”
“I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.”
“All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.”
“It takes madness to find out madness.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC
“My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents never, ever even brought it up. I imagine just looking at me, they were like "Not an army officer."”
“. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.”
“Pornography is about images that are repeated, saturated. Images of the human body, not nature. What I find in ***** is precisely the repetition of the same: the clichÃ©s of pornography. There can be no real transgression, just an image that repeats itself.”
“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin

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