"When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy."

-- John Lennon

#School Quotes #Grew Up Quotes #Grew Quotes

“Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.”
“In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.”

Source : Source: quarterlyconversation.com
“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”
“I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.”
“I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.”

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