"I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite."

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Source : "Intensive care". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2002.

Alex Kingston

#Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“He stopped and pointed an accusing finger at her. â€œI didnâ€™t ask for this. But I felt something in that back room with you, and itâ€™s stayed with me ever since. I want to be with you. I need to be with you.â€ His tone was both angry and helpless.”
“Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles for a brief period of time and then gone, as when Prospero describes the pageant fading, leaving "not a rack behind."”
“When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".”

Source : Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.”
“I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.”
“I think this does show that there will be some changes, not so much in Europe or Asia but certainly in the Middle East. General [James] Mattis has called for a comprehensive strategy to combat the various enemies the United States faces in the Middle East, especially Iran.”
“I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.”
“When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem”

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