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Carlos Fuentes quote: "I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I..."

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

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My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. Tommy Lee Jones
it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that... Carrie Underwood
I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in. Anthony Kiedis
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Hell is full of musical amateurs."
Hell is full of musical amateurs. George Bernard Shaw
Lisa Kudrow quote: "We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's..."
We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture. Lisa Kudrow
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. John Lasseter
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty... W. H. Auden
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. Robert Staughton Lynd
Neil Gaiman quote: "Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true..."
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. Neil Gaiman
Ang Lee quote: "I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single..."
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. Ang Lee
Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself. Barbara Kingsolver
I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this. Julia Roberts
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. Joss Whedon
Alanis Morissette quote: "I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write..."
I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes. Alanis Morissette
This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others. Richard Grasso