"When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience."

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Source : Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA

Maureen Howard

#Mother Quotes #Home Quotes #Winning Quotes

“But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.”
“Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.”
“I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.”
“I expected to go into journalism or law.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful”
“I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.”
“Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce”
“I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.”

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