"At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years."

-- Paula Cole

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Years Quotes

“Hard work is greater than lazy talent.”
“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
“My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.”
“I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.”
“Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I donâ€™t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. Theyâ€™re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they donâ€™t approve of tyrannical enterprises â€“ no pun intended â€“ and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.”
“Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.”

Source : "Does Crime Pay" in The Scandal Annual by the Paragon Project, p. 7, 1987.
“...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)”
“That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment I'd felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone. to be reassured or perhaps I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world. Or it was neither of these - I was afraid I was dreaming.”

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