"We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine."

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Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

Amanda Lindhout

#Afterlife Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?”
“Every work experience is a positive work experience, and if you're looking at it any other way I can't help you.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit...as I believe in, based on my philosophy.”

Source : "He's Taken the Blows and Now Brian's Doing It... His Way" by Lise Hand, www.independent.ie. January 28, 2009.
“What Iâ€™ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.”
“You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
“At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.”
“I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.”

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