"As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me."

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Source : "Mike Mills on “Beginners,” a Love Letter to his Father" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 3, 2011.

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“We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.”

Source : Charles Kennedy's speech to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.
“Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.”
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.”
“If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.”
“I came out of the womb waving red lipstick.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Apr 30, 2012
“All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come, man's intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace. ...let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.”
“To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality time with my kids by baking or doing crafts, hiking, going to the theater and movies.”

Source : "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

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