"Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self."

-- Lewis Buzbee

#Self Quotes #Years Quotes #Rereading Quotes

“Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?”
“A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.”
“When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”
“The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public â€“ how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not â€œone of usâ€? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.”
“Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.”
“[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.”

Source : "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.”
“No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.”

Source : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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