"I said I wouldn't leave her."

--

Jenny Downham

“A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.”
“Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others.Â When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.”
“I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet”
“Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.”

Source : Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield
“All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.”

Source : Steven Millhauser (2011). “We Others: New & Selected Stories”, p.243, Vintage
“I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.”
“Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.”

Source : "A Minute With: Joan Jett on life as a 'Runaway'". Interview with Bob Tourtellotte, www.reuters.com. March 18, 2010.
“I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.”

Source : "Lake Bell Dives Right In". Interview with Jillary Busis, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 29, 2011.

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