"AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

#People Quotes #Hiv Quotes #Disease Quotes

“Iâ€™m really alive when Iâ€™m on stage,”
“We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
“I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the mode where, "I've got to choose every good option." They should just play the game. And they should get equal consequences or rewards for that, that are different from the extremes.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.”
“How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.”
“You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.”
“He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.”

Source : Val McDermid (2010). “Kick Back (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 2)”, p.9, HarperCollins UK
“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”

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