"We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security."

-- Stanton Peele

#Mean Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Acting Quotes

“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
“The responsibility of caring and providing for a child can both give you strength or be paralyzing at times. Depending on the attitude you choose. Ultimately I think it is very valuable to anyone's personal growth having to care for someone else than just yourself.”
“The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.”
“Acting is attached to almost everyone in Los Angeles. Everyone has stars in their eyes when they come out here. I have an expression... it's like if you turn to the left and if you turn the right; if they're not an actor, you are. It's essentially true.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.”
“I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.”
“Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.”

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