"When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings."

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Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

Aidan Chambers

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“I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.”

Source : "How Rob Brydon Learnt to Play Nice". Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 17, 2012.
“You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.”
“The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.”
“The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.”
“My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.”

Source : Richard Moran (1990). “Dallas Down”, Jove Publications
“To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.”
“I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.”
“I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried.”

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