"To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it."

-- Graydon Carter

#Growing Up Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.”
“Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.”
“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”

Source : FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from May 09, 2015
“The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.”
“It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.”
“To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.”
“I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.”
“At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?”

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