"It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Mystery Quotes #Born Quotes

“I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.”
“Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".”
“The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.”
“If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.”
“Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.”
“When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.”
“I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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