"My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books."

-- Jeff VanderMeer

#Mother Quotes #Art Quotes #Strong Quotes

“I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.”
“A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.”
“I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.”
“I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.”
“You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard] there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape we need more of that.”

Source : "Birdseed boobs and babies: Highlights from the Women Who Kick Ass Comic-Con panel" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. July 27, 2014.
“Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.”

Source : "Natascha McElhone: My grief". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.”

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