"[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Growing Up Quotes #Father Quotes #Parent Quotes

“You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.”
“When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.”
“The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.”

Source : "Inside Out and Lava: Sneak Peek". Interview with Tara Salinas, www.trippinwithtara.com. March 12, 2015.
“When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.”
“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”
“Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon
“The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.”

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