"Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure."

-- Edmund White

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“I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring”
“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.”

Source : "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.”
“The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.”
“Itâ€™s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.”
“When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.”

Source : Source: fightnetwork.com
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”

Source : A Mathematician's Apology ch. 8 (1940)

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