"I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored."

-- James Ellroy

#School Quotes #Kids Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.”

Source : "Back from the Wilderness ... Miss Cora Munro". Mohican Press Interview, 2005.
“Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.”
“The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment provides, in simple words, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." I read "no law . . . abridging" to mean no law abridging.”

Source : Concurring opinion, Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147, 1959.
“An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.”
“A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.”
“I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.”
“The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.”
“If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.”

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