"I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if they don't say, "Thank you," it pisses me off. I say, "Yes, ma'am," and, "Yes, sir." Stuff that is maybe archaic in a lot of ways, but that's how I was raised, and I don't think there's really any harm in that."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Chris Black

#Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes #Southern Quotes

“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
“I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Design is a dreadful form of expression”
“Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.”

Source : Ziauddin Sardar (2011). “Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam”, p.103, Oxford University Press
“Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”
“For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.”
“In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.”
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

Source : The Harsh Voice "There Is No Conversation" (1935)

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