"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."

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Source : Diane Arbus (1972)

Diane Arbus

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“Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.”

Source : "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.
“I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day.”
“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”
“I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.”
“In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In our house, all you hear is groaning.”
“I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.”

Source : "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.
“Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time.”

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