"That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly."

--

Source : "Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher - review" by Mal Peet, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2013.

Annabel Pitcher

#Girl Quotes #Strong Quotes #Wings Quotes

“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”
“I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.”
“People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?”
“The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.”
“They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.”
“It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?”
“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

You may also like: