"It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say."

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Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.9, Macmillan

Laurie Halse Anderson

#Lying Quotes #Communication Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“After 4 years on NYPD Blue it has been nice to have the summer off and spend time with family and friends. There are a few projects I am interested in and plan to be working this fall.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.”
“What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.”
“Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences”
“My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat.”
“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
“My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.”
“I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.”

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