Jocelyn Moorhouse Quotes

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

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LifeLoveWomenMenWomanMan

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

Ani DiFranco

LifeI AmSocietyEnergyLookMore

I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy.

Suki Waterhouse

SexyClothesWantUberAlluring

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Steve Prefontaine

MyselfAchievementBackDownOver

We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

Joko Beck

LifePainPeopleThinkTryingRun

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

Boots Riley

WorkDayPeopleFreeRestRich

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

Astro Teller

PictureYouGoBarSomethingMany

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

Sylvester Stallone

LoveDayStoryEnd Of The DayEnd

I just got a new dog, so I was worried that he'd hate the fireworks, and he did, but just because he's not a patriot, not because of the loud sounds. The loud sounds he's fine with - he just hates America.

Nikki Glaser

DogHateAmericaNewJust Because

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Marsha Thomason

LifeBestSchoolPeopleSchool Days

It was actually my older brother who wanted to start acting. He would point at the TV as a kid and tell my mom he wanted to do it, and he would act his favorite scenes from 'Home Alone.'

Kevin Schmidt

HomeAloneBrotherMomStartActing

If it's present in the life of the character, I'll write about it. Kitchen, bedroom, church, I'll follow a character wherever they go.

Kevin Canty

LifeCharacterKitchenPresentGo

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

Hugh Bonneville

PeopleMediaYoungYoung People

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