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“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”
Source : Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins
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“I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,”
Source : "The price of shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2015.
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“It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.”
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“Shia phobia or Sunni phobia...we never hear about this. They murder each other!”
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“To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.”