"By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people."

-- William Trevor

#Character Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.”
“And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.”

Source : "Song: Put Your Hands Up (Album: Kiss Tha Game Goodbye)". 2001.
“Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home, this is quite serious. A baby has to be near its kin most of the time when he is little for three, four or five years. To give him this grounding, this feeling of connection, this feeling of relationship, is the most important thing.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.”
“I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.”

Source : "Arab-American Crowned 2010 Miss USA". www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2010.
“Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.”
“The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.”

Source : Carl Andre, University of California, Berkeley. University Art Gallery (1979). “Carl Andre: sculpture, 1959-1979 : May 23-July 1, 1979, University Art Museum, Berkeley”
“It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in terms of profits and my country recently went to war due to oil pricing. What does that say they will do to keep this other industry in tact? It is up to patients and their families to question what they are being given, and to consumers to demand better, more natural alternatives.”

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