"When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]"

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Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

Simone Elkeles

#Attitude Quotes #Real Quotes #Eye Quotes

“The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....”
“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
“That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”
“I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It's a combination of being very aware of them, and not trusting them.”

Source : "Seabiscuit Interviews: Chris Cooper". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horse-races.net. July 15, 2003.
“If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.”
“I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late â€™90s!”

Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.”
“That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.”

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