"We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it."

-- Joshua Ferris

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“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.”
“We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.”
“I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.”
“If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.”
“I am really Method-y.”

Source : "Anna Paquin, Breckin Meyer Talk 'Blue State,' Why 'Garfield' Saga Isn't Over". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. May 1, 2007.
“We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.”

Source : "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.
“Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.”

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