"When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence."

-- Ariel Gore

#Mother Quotes #Kids Quotes #Style Quotes

“That all depends on what "is" is.”
“I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.”
“I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.”
“One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.”
“I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.”
“You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.”
“If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.”

Source : "TalkAsia" with Kyung Lah, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2012.
“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.”

Source : "Chris Brown Blasts Grammy Appearance Critics" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. February 15, 2012.

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