"I've raised my daughter with no television."

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Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

Natalie Merchant

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Television Quotes

“The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.”
“This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of Johnâ€™s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.”
“Don't cohabitate. Don't fornicate. Don't look at pornography. Don't create a standard of beauty. Have your spouse be your standard of beauty. This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography: you lust after people and compare your spouse to them. It's impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don't have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse.”
“I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”
“I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.”
“I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.”
“They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.”

Source : "Scott Glenn on serial killers, Alan Shepard, and almost ending up on Sons Of Anarchy". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. May 4, 2015.
“I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.”

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