"Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city."

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Source : Christos Tsiolkas (2014). “Barracuda”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

Christos Tsiolkas

#Cities Quotes #Crowds Quotes #Aliens Quotes

“I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very Glee.”
“Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.”
“Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.”
“When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself.”
“The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.”
“Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.”
“My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other things I see in the world around me.”

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