"She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life."

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Kim Edwards

#Father Quotes #Moving Quotes #Exotic Quotes

“Love and hate, black and white, Right or wrong, who is right? Some smoke joints to anoint their brain To the vanishing point...so they won't go insane.”
“This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.”
“Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem”
“I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.”
“You can rely on your team to do their jobs, but you have to carry the torch and do anything you need to, not just to shoot and finish, but to get the film seen. You have to know within yourself that you're going to have to take this. Don't sit back and think other people in your team are going to make it happen now because you've done your part. You have to carry that torch, and no one is going to care as much as you do, and nobody is going to live with it as long as you are because it's your film.”
“An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.”
“Drosophila,â€ I said, remembering the word. â€œWhat?â€ Lily asked. â€œWhy do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?â€ â€œWhat?â€ â€œFruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.â€ â€œBecause theyâ€™re hot?â€ â€œThis,â€ I told her, â€œis not the time for being truthful.”
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”

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