"I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again"

-- Tracey Emin

#Want Quotes #Mum Quotes

“I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.”
“Slow motion gets you there faster.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.”

Source : Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. October 06, 2011.
“Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.”
“Poetry is the deification of reality.”
“Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.”
“It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.”

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