"I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake."

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Source : Pam Houston (1993). “Cowboys are My Weakness: Stories”

Pam Houston

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That's what I think.”
“Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.”
“The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.”
“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”
“Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. Â An act of sex is one of the most human things. Â But an organization like the church, say, through its doctrine, would undermine humanity by successfully teaching shame about sexual orientation - that it is sinful, or that it offends God. Â The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.”

Source : "Hozier celebrates Irish vote on gay marriage" by Jayme Deerwester, www.usatoday.com. May 23, 2015.
“I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.”
“Nobody can say that Iâ€™m lazy in training.”

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