"Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days."

-- Grayson Perry

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“You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.”

Source : Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.
“When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.
“The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.”
“I've played my fair share of unpleasant character, and I have to tell you that you sleep better when you're playing fun characters. You think you don't take it home with you, at the end of the filming day, but subconsciously, there's something floating around in the background there.”

Source : "James D’Arcy Talks AGENT CARTER, Hayley Atwell, and Hints at Finale Surprise". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2015.
“We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.”
“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.”
“The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love so overwhelming that it engulfs community after community and makes the culture of our time distinctive, individual, creative and truly of the spirit.”

Source : Frances Clarke Sayers (1950). “The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948”
“Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.”

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