"People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs."

-- John Marsden

#School Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.”
“There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.”
“There is no road to the land without roads.”
“This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.”
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.”
“But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in piles on my desk, they stack behind me on my shelves, they surprise me every time I look for one and find ten more I had forgotten about. I love their covers, their weight and their substance. And like the child I was, with the key to the world that reading gave me, it is still exciting for me to find a new book, open it at the first page and plunge in, head first, heart deep.”
“At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.”

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