"She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it."

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

Phyllis Bottome

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“You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.”
“I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.”

Source : "David Hasselhoff talks 'Piranha 3DD,' his high-protein essence, and the Hoff Train". Interview with Adam Pockross, www.yahoo.com. May 30, 2012.
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
“The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.”
“Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.”
“Not only does political coverage often lose the signalâ€”it frequently accentuates the noise.”

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