"I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet."

-- Hubert Selby, Jr.

#Dream Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #World Quotes

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”
“There is a decided bias against things Christian.”
“People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.”

Source : "Why I’m Scared to Say Cougar Town Is the Best Job Ever" by Christa Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.
“It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.”
“Iâ€™m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - Iâ€™ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each otherâ€™s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. Iâ€™m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each otherâ€™s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dadâ€™s eyes.”
“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”
“[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?”
“Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.”

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