"I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you."

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Source : Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

Anne-Marie Duff

#Commitment Quotes #People Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this - then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment. So I can make without thought, fifteen carefully considered negatives, one every fifteen minutes, given material with as many possibilities. But there is all the eyes have seen in this life to influence me.”
“...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”
“The best revenge is a life well lived.”

Source : Chloe Neill (2010). “Twice Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.191, Penguin
“I'm against ignorance.”
“Great peace is found in little busy-ness.”
“I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.”
“My mother had me sort the eyes”

Source : Elizabeth Graver (1991). “Have you seen me?”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
“For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.”

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