"I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Bob Brown

#Optimistic Quotes #Doe Quotes #Lifetime Quotes

“There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.”
“You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.”
“Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.”
“Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.”
“To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”
“Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.”

Source : "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 2003.
“Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with....”
“I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.”

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