"I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking." And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way."

-- Maggie Gyllenhaal

#Children Quotes #Believe Quotes #Motherhood Quotes

“I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth”
“Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than winning an Oscar.”
“When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.”
“Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.”
“in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
“When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.”
“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.”

Source : "Waiting for the barbarians" by Morris Berman, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.
“How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say whatâ€™s in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, itâ€™s wrong, isnâ€™t it?”

Source : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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