"I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence."

-- Anna Torv

#Mother Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Source : "Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths". Book by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, 1986.
“I think the compositional side of my productions have progressed and matured a lot more, and creating melodies is actually what I have always enjoyed the most, so my productions will always contain that strong musical element.”
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
“EWW. I'm at lunch, the woman at the table next to me is breast feeding her baby with no coverup.”
“...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: â€˜Weâ€™ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!â€™ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.”
“Iâ€™ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.”
“Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.”
“When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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