"I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures."

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Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

Mindy Kaling

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?”
“Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.”
“Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.”
“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.”
“Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.”
“Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.”
“There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.”

Source : Mari Sandoz (1992). “Letters of Mari Sandoz”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press
“I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.”

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