"My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didnâ€™t have slots for those."

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Source : S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.60, Feiwel & Friends

S.A. Bodeen

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“If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at face value but some of the most beautiful things are not apparent at first glance. The works that stick with me and that I find to be most beautiful are often not aesthetically inviting right off the bat. So I think having an open mind and allowing the lines to blur between art, music, fashion, food, what have you, all leads to cultivating a much more open and enjoyable aesthetic sensibility.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The best thingâ€”in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thingâ€”about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”
“I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!”
“I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.
“Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.”
“In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.”
“People tend to think that if someone is a movie star, that automatically everything is easier and there is less pressure. But all of them still keep that pressure on, are still inspired and still care about the work.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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