"How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?"

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Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.189, Random House

Gabrielle Hamilton

#Mother Quotes #Effort Quotes #Separation Quotes

“After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.”
“There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.”

Source : "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" CD liner notes,
“I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'”
“Compassion takes imagination.”

Source : Interview on ABC Chicago, May 3, 2011.
“There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.”

Source : Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.492, tredition
“Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?”
“I got to a crossroads in my life where basically I was asked to choose between staying at home and being with them, or being in a band and doing what I want to do.”
“Donâ€™t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.”

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