"I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong."

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Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lucy Grealy

#Pain Quotes #Important Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Donâ€™t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you donâ€™t have opposition, because youâ€™re probably not obeying God.”
“Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.”
“The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.”
“I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.”

Source : "A Conversation with Artist Fred Tomaselli". Interview with Robert Ayers, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2010.
“The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All I can tell you is, we're talking. There was quite an air of secrecy around the development of 'Batman Begins,' and there will be even more around the development of another film, if they move forward.”
“I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.”
“Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.”
“In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.”

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