"Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy."

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Source : Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.102, Random House

Ian Mcewan

#Self Quotes #Joy Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.”
“I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.”
“I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.”

Source : "Billy Crudup Bares All". Parade Interview, parade.com. March 3, 2009.
“'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.”
“My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.”
“I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.”
“I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.”

Source : "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.
“Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.”

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