"I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there."

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Source : "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.

Alexandra Fuller

#Self Love Quotes #Looks Quotes #Tough Quotes

“Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!”
“I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.”
“Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.”
“I think of a film as being like a toy train.”

Source : Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk
“Learning the craft as an actor in Los Angeles is a very hard thing to do, in my opinion. We all come from a certain world and when you start learning the craft, you need material to read/study that you can relate to. We do not have too many Latino writers on the West Coast that I was able to relate to (or at least, I didn't know at the time). I came from the streets, so the most published authors had no relation to my world. As soon as I picked up Pinero & Guirgis, it was all over. It was my world, just in a different location. They cracked me open inside and out.”
“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?”
“The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.”

Source : "Which job skills will be most important in the future?". Interview with Eric Barker, theweek.com. December 17, 2013.
“To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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