"[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures."

-- Kate Seredy

#Stories Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“If you have time to lean, you have time to clean....”
“Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.”
“I had the opportunity to be around my kids a lot. I guess I could have kept working, but I had them when I was 47. You only get to see all this stuff once. I just chose to work at home and watch them.”
“I've run all the bands I've been in. A great front man needs that other person. It's not enough to have a guy with a cute face standing behind a microphone. I see it like the classic romantic relationships with men and women, where the woman lets the man think he's running it. It's a classic matriarchal trait, and that's always been part of my personality.”
“It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.”
“I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.”
“Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation -- and itâ€™s called October,”

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