"Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air."

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Source : Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

Sarah Kay

#Air Quotes #Wind Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.”
“Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.”
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
“When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.”
“It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”
“I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.
“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.”

Source : Sara Paretsky (2007). “Writing in an Age of Silence”, Verso Books

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