"While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in."

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Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

Lisa Lutz

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Real Quotes

“Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.”
“Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.”

Source : "Deacon Jones, football's original sackmaster, was the most feared of the Fearsome Foursome". www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2013.
“There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.”

Source : "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair" by Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
“What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.”
“The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.
“[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.”
“It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.”
“My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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