"The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others."

-- Judith Martin

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Cost Quotes

“they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1993). “Next: new poems”, Bookslinger
“Be careful what you're good at doing, because you'll probably do a lot of it.”

Source : Jim Bob Duggar, Michelle Duggar (2009). “The Duggars: 20 and Counting!: Raising One of America's Largest Families--How the”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)”
“Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.”
“The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.”
“The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.”
“You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.”

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