"Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in."

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V. S. Naipaul

#Fun Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Once one crosses a conceptual threshold of rethinking what nature might or might not be, it can multiply outward radically. The world becomes a more interesting place to be, and one is perhaps somewhat less judgmental.”
“I donâ€™t think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove,”
“Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.”
“I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people - vaginas do?”

Source : "My Guns Are Less Regulated Than My Uterus" by Shannyn Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.
“Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.”
“It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!”
“My career started slowly and then tapered off.”
“Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.”

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