"Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not."

-- Germaine Greer

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“For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.”
“There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.”
“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”
“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Source : "Q&A: We Heart Amy Ryan". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. September 22, 2010.
“No human being is illegal.”
“Comedy is what i do best.”
“Never allow the cross to lose itâ€™s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.”
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.”

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