"There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, noÂÂÂ-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?"

-- Maya Angelou

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Children Quotes

“What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.”
“When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.”

Source : "Freaky deaky: gay music video director John Roecker takes stop-motion animation to bizarre places in his debut feature Live Freaky! Die Freaky!" by Kurt B. Reighley, The Advocate, February 14, 2006.
“When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.”
“I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.”

Source : "Kelly Stables: ‘Like many actors, I started off as a monkey’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 26, 2010.
“Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.”
“Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.”
“Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.”

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