"I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me."

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Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

J. Robbins

#People Quotes #Speak Quotes #Endure Quotes

“Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.”

Source : "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.
“I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.”
“The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.”
“I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith. The world we experience together is one world, God's world, and our world, and the problems we share are common human problems. So we can talk together, try to understand each other, and help each other.”
“There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.”
“The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.”
“Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?”
“Iâ€™m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but Iâ€™d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan â€œa genius.â€ My science teacher told me that television was â€œthe new opiate of the massesâ€ and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.”

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