"It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand."

-- Aimee Bender

#Daughter Quotes #Father Quotes #Language Quotes

“The cinema industry is competing against everything else people can do on a Friday or Saturday night. If they don't have a good time, you're going to lose them to something else. So much of what we do is trying to make the Alamo experience special.”
“There is compensation in all things.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books
“Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.”
“A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.”
“And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.”

Source : "Song: "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"". 1998.
“We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.”
“I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.”
“What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.”

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