"These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance."

-- Edwidge Danticat

#Laughing Quotes #Parent Quotes #Stories Quotes

“You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.”
“Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.”
“For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.”
“I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.”
“Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me”
“For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you canâ€™t quite speak the language, and you donâ€™t know where youâ€™re going, and youâ€™re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where youâ€™re left puzzling over who you are and whom youâ€™ve fallen in love with.”

Source : "Oh to Wanderfly (and How It’ll Help You Travel)" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.
“The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.”

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