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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean the level of hatred that they had and the level of physical abuse – my mother would beat up my father basically – and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

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Category: Relationship

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Where children are there is the golden age.
  • 2. Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
  • 3. One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
  • 2. What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history throughout the more than 200 years of our history there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.
  • 3. Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

3 Anger

  • 1. I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
  • 2. What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
  • 3. Never do anything when you are in a temper for you will do everything wrong.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 2. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
  • 3. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't find Hollywood interesting so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
  • 2. All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
  • 3. Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.
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