"My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get."

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Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laurie Metcalf". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. October 21, 2009.

Laurie Metcalf

#Growing Up Quotes #Illinois Quotes #Southern Quotes

“One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.”

Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.
“Appearances matter â€” and remember to smile.”
“Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.”
“La cucaracha, la cucaracha, Ya no quieres caminar, Porque no tienes, Porque le falta, Marihuana que fumar.”
“I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us.”
“Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.”
“The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.”
“Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell (1858). “The pleasures of memory, by S. Rogers. The pleasures of hope, by T. Campbell”, p.22

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