"I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it."

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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Long Quotes

“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'”
“I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.”
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”
“I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.”
“My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.”
“Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.”

Source : Haile Selassie's Address on the 18th anniversary of his coronation, November 2, 1948.
“There's good in this world. I mean I'm not at all blind to that. God is a good God himself. There are good things. He gives good gifts to His children. But within this world there's a harshness and some of it is unanswered. I don't think I'm trying to provide an answer as much as I am begging people to walk with me in awareness so that we can push back the darkness.”
“If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.”

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