"I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode."

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Source : "Patton Oswalt Was Once a Young Adult, Has Aged, Reflects". Interview with Aaron Hills, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2011.

Martin Gore

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“May your life preach more loudly than your lips.”

Source : William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(398 p.)”, p.101
“It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.”
“The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.”
“Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.”
“I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.”
“Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.”

Source : Arnold Mindell (1995). “Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity”, Not Applicable
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”
“There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.”

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