"Thoughts can hurt like real pain."

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Source : Alice Childress (2000). “A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich”, p.19, Penguin

Alice Childress

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Real Quotes

“I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way.”
“Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.”
“In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of Yale, to get outside of art-speak, and to really think about art as a material practice that has very useful and pragmatic material precedent.”
“Not all prisons have bars”

Source : Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.238, Pan Macmillan
“Real power comes not from hate, but from truth.”
“You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.”
“I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.”
“In terms of what happened over that hiatus that I took, I just rested. I spent that time with my family, during their really formative years, and enjoyed that, and I messed with pills and new medications that help me to deal with dyskinesia and some other things I was struggling with, that I don't have as much now because of medication to counter the side effects. So, it just seemed like the right time to do it.”

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