"I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know."

-- Andrea Arnold

#Writing Quotes #Class Quotes #Grew Up Quotes

“You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.”
“Don't worry about tomorrow, just be real good today. The Lord is right beside you, he'll guide you all the way.”
“If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?”
“The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.”
“It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.”

Source : Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.151, Harper Collins
“It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them.”

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