"... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects."

-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Country Quotes #Fear Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.”
“Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.”
“Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.”
“When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.”
“In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.”
“There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.”
“I liked to drive around, just playing music for everyone.”

Source : "Gia Coppola's suburban fantasy". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.dazeddigital.com. October 17, 2014.
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”

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