"When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them."

-- Karen Russell

#Kids Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.”
“I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.”

Source : "Jason Bateman Talks Making His Feature Directorial Debut, Why He Chose This Script, Shooting Digitally, and More on the Set of Bad Words". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2014.
“Nobody will tell me what I can or I cannot do.”

Source : "US Open 2014 - Victoria Azarenka: 'Can I play better? Absolutely. Will I doubt that I can play on a higher level? No chance'". Interview, www.ubitennis.com. September 3, 2014.
“Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldnâ€™t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.”

Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.152, Ballantine Books
“I'm not a crazy old cat lady!”
“The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.”
“The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the English to go away - as soon as their money was spent. And that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.”
“You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!”

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