"I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms."

-- Ralph Ellison

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“Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.”
“When you have a family as big as mine, there are many things that affect my family members, in many different ways. It could be high blood pressure, it could be cholesterol, it could be obesity, it could be sleep deprivation or sleep apnea. An illness is an illness, especially if it affects younger kids. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy, just as my family members want me to be healthy.”
“I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.”

Source : "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.
“I certainly donâ€™t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that itâ€™s become so powerful in the world and itâ€™s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I donâ€™t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.”
“California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.”
“I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president”
“How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically 'begging' us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art.”
“Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara”

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