"You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school."

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Graydon Carter

#Mother Quotes #School Quotes #Light Quotes

“These problems have been here so long that the only way Iâ€™ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”

Source : Mark Bowden (2011). “Worm: The First Digital World War”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.”
“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.270, Simon and Schuster
“Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.”
“When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.”
“And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.”

Source : "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.
“When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.”
“God was in the details.”

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