"A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children."

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Source : Deborah Smith (2009). “On Bear Mountain”, p.229, BelleBooks

Deborah Smith

#Children Quotes #Husband Quotes #Smart Quotes

“A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.”
“I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway”
“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”
“I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.”

Source : "Q&A: Tim Heidecker on The Comedy and Being Stabbed". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 9, 2012.
“I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.”

Source : "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.
“"Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ."”
“The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change.”
“...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.”

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