"Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture."

-- Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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“Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.”
“People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.”
“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”
“This is basically the last resort. I've been painted into a corner, and now I've sort of got to lay it all out in order for things to be straightened up. I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that. So in order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.”

Source : "Corey Clark says Paula Abdul 'told me she loved me'" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. May 6, 2005.
“Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.”
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
“One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2006). “Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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