"It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going."

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Source : Karin Fossum (2013). “Broken”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karin Fossum

#Hard Work Quotes #Tired Quotes #Character Quotes

“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.”
“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”
“My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.”
“THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.”
“I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.”
“Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.”

Source : "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.
“I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.”

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