"I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting."

-- Joe Abercrombie

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Blocking material leads to censorship. That goes for pornography and bestiality, too. If you don't like it, don't look at it... Every time I hear someone say, I want to protect the children, I want to pull my hair out.”

Source : "Preventing Kids From Seeing Illegal Smut Is Not Unconstitutional; It's Common Sense" by Janet M. LaRue, Senior Director of Legal Studies at the Family Research Council, "National Policy Center: Idea House", 2001.
“One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.”
“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb”
“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

Source : In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190
“So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.”
“I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”

Source : "Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood" by Sofia Kovalevskaya, 1895.

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