"How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?"

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Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

David Sheff

#Self Quotes #Obsessed Quotes #Considerate Quotes

“I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.”

Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not”
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.”
“... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.”
“L.A. makes you feel ugly.”
“At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care â€” if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler.”
“You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.”
“Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.”

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