"You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found,"

-- Martin Parr

#Country Quotes #Beach Quotes #Space Quotes

“I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”
“When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.”
“I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.”
“The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.”
“The millennial that lives in a very red state might not even realize that their congressman thinks that they have no constituents that feel the opposite of what the president or they are doing. This is the time to step up and push back.”
“I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.”

Source : TV Times, January 19-25, 1991.
“Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.”

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