"I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol."

Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

Tig Notaro

#Mother Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.”
“Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.”
“Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform..”
“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”

Source : Francisco X. Alarcón, Lorna Dee Cervantes (1989). “Chicanas Y Chicanos en Diálogo”
“Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age”
“When Teddy Roosevelt was around, there was an Ottoman Empire. There was a Habsburg empire. They controlled millions of people across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. And they're gone.Prosperity killed them, because they didn't have a way to hold the people together. They didn't have the rituals and the holidays and the pride in their country. And that's what we need if we're going to hold ourselves together during periods of prosperity.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .”
“The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.”

Source : Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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