"but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

#People Quotes #Answers Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
“You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really just the same actor playing both characters in the scene? I knew this would be the best route, but I just wasn't comfortable dressing as a woman, so I had to hire other actors.”
“Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'”
“Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.”
“I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.”
“Simply being myself makes me feel vulnerable.”
“I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.”
“The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.”

Source : "How funny women fought hard for their place in the spotlight" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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