"That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Tired Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Way Quotes

“New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldnt want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But theres no hustle and bustle, no street life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.”
“There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass.”
“I'm a trained actor and I can always tone it down, I can always simplify the work I've done. But if I'm asked to bring the nuanced and complicated work, I'll have it in my pocket, and all that information helps.”
“Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.”
“But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.”
“I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.”

Source : On the prospect of a Conservative re-election, in speech at Bridgend, 7 June 1983; 'Guardian' 8 June 1983
“She always wanted to believe in things.”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). “Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.196, Faber & Faber

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