"I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies."

-- Penn Jillette

#War Quotes #Party Quotes #Self Quotes

“The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.”
“Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.”

Source : "Zadie Smith's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I donâ€™t know who I am at all. And either way Iâ€™m not happy.”
“Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.”
“A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.”
“The camera kind of finds things that the naked eye can't even see. By moving in a certain way, you're already telling part of the story.”
“We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.”
“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”

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