"Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood."

-- Hanif Kureishi

#Mean Quotes #Being In Love Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."”
“What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”
“It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on...”

Source : "The Phantom Menace Review". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2009.
“Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.”
“No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the things seen and felt in that wonderful world of air: the sense of remoteness from the busy world below, the feeling of intense brotherhood formed with those who man the radio ranges and control towers and weather stations that bring the pilot home, the clouds and the colors, the surge of the wind on their wings.”
“No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.”
“I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try to remember what I look like. Then I ask them if they remember what I look like. But when you open your eyes you will be surprised how different what you thought I looked like is to what I actually look like. Because the imagination is a different raw material from actual vision. Memory is very different from the thing itself.”
“We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what weâ€™re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the â€œthick of thin things.â€ In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.”

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