"New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but itâ€™s not, itâ€™s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so theyâ€™re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again."

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Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

Peter Cameron

#Summer Quotes #New York Quotes #Stars Quotes

“I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!”

Source : "Heidi Montag Wants Her Fake Boobs Attacked By Sharks in 3D" by Will Leblanc, www.cinemablend.com.
“Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.”
“In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.”
“A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.”
“Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me.”
“A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.”
“If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.”
“When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.”

Source : "Daniella Alonso: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. September 28, 2010.

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