"The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up."

-- Leymah Gbowee

#World Quotes #Upside Down Quotes

“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.”

Source : Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.”
“I am not a fan of politics.”
“Well, my dad was into music, but he wasn't into me being into music. In my house when I was a kid, when I was real young, my dad wanted us all to play sports, and we were jock-like. We had a lot of money. And my brother was sort of the light of our family, and he was a good athlete. And I wasn't a very good athlete, but I tried to be. And then when I was 15 my dad went bankrupt, and we moved to Houston. And I went with him, but then I went back to Portland.”
“We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.”
“We appeal, not to those who reject today in the name of a return to yesterday, not to those who are hopelessly deafened by today; we appeal to those who see the distant tomorrow -- and judge today in the name of tomorrow.”
“Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up...”

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