"No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion."

-- Trenton Lee Stewart

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“Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.”
“The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.”
“No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.”

Source : "Excerpts From an Interview With Mario Batali and Mark Morris". Interview with Julie Bloom, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 2010.
“The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.”
“We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who write with fury and fire about the world, and in new ways, without having them say things like "I read a really good Indian book," or "That Malaysian fellow writes very well." So I hope by identifying as Indian I can get people who don't usually read "ethnic" or "Indian" literature to read that literature and enjoy it.”
“[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)”
“The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.”
“Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?" "Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over.”

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