"Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react."

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Hector Babenco

#Emotional Quotes #People Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1984). “In My Mother's House”, Perennial
“Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.”
“I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.”
“If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong,”

Source : "Ayelet Waldman Stands By Essay That Infuriated Moms Nearly A Decade Ago". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.”
“I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.”

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