"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give."

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Source : P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

P. D. James

#Children Quotes #Parenting Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.”
“Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.”
“Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.”
“Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.”

Source : Charles Du Bos (1940). “What is literature?”
“James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.”
“I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.”
“When we get to A League Of Their Own, I have to be Geena Davis' little sister who wants to be like her and wants everything that she has and is jealous and upset and mad. Well, that was easy. I mean, she has an Academy Award. I think I can be upset about that. She's 99 feet tall and she's drop-dead gorgeous and she's all feminine and pretty. I had to pretend I couldn't run as fast as her. That was hard.”
“One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.”

Source : Marilyn R. Chandler, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (1990). “Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography”, Taylor & Francis

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