"Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish."

-- T. H. White

#Children Quotes #Comforting Quotes #Degradation Quotes

“Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.”
“About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.”
“I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like I've failed as a creative person. It's just like stealing something and doing some sort of slight alteration to it - I'd feel like I'm not doing my job as a musician, or as a creative person - if it's just obvious like that.”
“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”
“My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.”
“If you focus on success, youâ€™ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”
“Do you forget that I am your sister?â€ â€œNo; Iâ€™ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.”

Source : Georgette Heyer (2011). “Frederica”, p.8, Random House
“With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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