"She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself."

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Source : Melvin Burgess (1999). “Junk: Adapted for the Stage”, p.33, A&C Black

Melvin Burgess

#Eye Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains in front of you, when you know that you have to a goal a few hundred, a few dozen meters when you are right in front. This is the time of happiness.”
“If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.”

Source : Source: www.cyinterview.com
“I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.”
“I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.”

Source : "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“Dont shoot where it is, son.Â Shoot where its going to be.”
“The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.”
“If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.”
“Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.”

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