Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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LifeFearChildrenLonelinessPain

I think we all evolve as we get older, and that's normal, but I like to think that my recent transition hasn't made me into a different individual. Same person - no difference at all, just a different sex.

Andreja Pejic

MeThinkSexTransitionPersonSame

There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.

Jef I. Richards

AdvertisingBadOutEmbarrassing

Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

Michael Greger

DayWalkingExerciseLevelPace

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

John Thorn

WorkChildrenJoyLearnPlayTrue

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

Amy Waldman

PeopleMeConflictThinkJournalism

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

Amy Bloom

HeartStoryThinkTellGenesWell

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

St. Lucia

GreatArtThinkAfricaNeverStage

I enjoy reality television.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

RealityEnjoyTelevision

As an actor, some of the most fun days I've had on set have involved shooting blanks all day - or better yet, on a micro-budget indie shoot in Texas, shooting live ammo. I feel guilty admitting this, but make-believe beating a man half to death for nine hours can also be strangely satisfying and, dare I say, good fun.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

GoodLiveDayDeathManFun

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

Robert Wilson

TimeThinkMysteryDreamUsI Think

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Michel Houellebecq

I AmMindMeQuestionsPointAsking

You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money, then you go to the Cannes Film Festival, and they got some poster of you, 40 ft. high, in the worst movie in the world.

Michael Madsen

MoneyWorldYouGoWorstHigh

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