"I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis."

-- Michael Sheen

#Helping Quotes #Failing Quotes #Process Quotes

“Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.”
“To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.”
“Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1418, Delphi Classics
“Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.”
“I have an opportunity to give a voice to those who have no voice. Even though film production wasn't a bucket list item for my life, what I have been passionate about is creating change and impacting society - especially bringing conversations forward on formerly taboo subjects.”

Source : "Interview: Producer & CEO Julie Smolyansky, 2017 Women in Film Chicago Focus Awards Honoree". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. February 21, 2017.
“But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.”

Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan". "Morning Edition" with David Welna, www.wfdd.org. February 21, 2013.
“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”
“Iâ€™m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Iâ€™ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but thereâ€™s still so much more to see. I doubt Iâ€™ll ever cure this wanderlust, and Iâ€™m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... Heâ€™s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.”

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