"I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong."

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Source : Tammara Webber (2012). “Easy”, p.33, Penguin UK

Tammara Webber

#Beer Quotes #Boys Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.”
“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.102, Open Road Media
“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.
“The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.”
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
“If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.”

Source : YouTube Channel "jerbo414"/"Fred Hampton Speech: 'Why don't you die for the people'", www.youtube.com. August 28, 2010.
“You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.”
“...bleak territory of the heart.”

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