"This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this..."

-- Betty Smith

#Sleep Quotes #Eight Quotes #People Quotes

“I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?”

Source : "Chit Chatting with Author Victoria Laurie". Interview with Jill Sheets, www.relatemag.com. April 1, 2011.
“A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.”
“I feel at home in an orchestral score.”
“Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.”
“If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.”
“Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.”
“Marijuana is like sex: If I don't do it every day I get a headache.”
“Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!”

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