"So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection."

-- Marlon Riggs

#Self Quotes #Confession Quotes #Pretense Quotes

“Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".”
“The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.”
“Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.”
“Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.”
“If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.”
“I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.”
“People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.”
“What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting or enjoying things. It doesn't matter what you're talking about - war, work, marriage, democracy, love, it all fails because everybody gives up trying after a while, we can't help ourselves. And don't ask me to solve it because I am the worst. I'd escape tomorrow if I could, from every single thing I've always wanted.”

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