"Drinking and drugging make it so your reality flies away from you. Your body and your mind are not present. I loved that feeling as a kid. For me, the strongest way to have that feeling was love and sex. Not only did I enjoy it - that feeling of being transported - but because I was so boy-identified, first as a tomboy and then as a girl who liked to sleep with boys."

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Source : Source: www.mtv.com

Claire Dederer

#Girl Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.”
“The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.”
“I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.”
“We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.”
“All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.”
“Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.”

Source : Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”
“APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?”
“If anything, in the podcast world, I'm relieved that I don't have to dress like the character. I don't necessarily have to do all of the physicality that conveys the character, but do as much as I need to help me feel like the character.”

Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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