"Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

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“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”

Source : "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.
“I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.”
“One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.”
“Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.”
“Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.”
“Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.”
“One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 14, 2016
“Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.”

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