"I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything"

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Source : "I Didn’t Tell!" by Robin Quivers, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

Robin Quivers

#Nuclear Quotes #Destroying Quotes #Explosions Quotes

“I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.”
“Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.”
“I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.”
“My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive. But growing up, I absolutely did have that feeling of, "Wow, somebody just gave me up." That was infused in The Secret Life of Bees too - the protagonist wanting unconditional love from her dead but much-imagined mother.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster
“A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!”
“Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.”

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