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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

Beck

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WalkWallsCityMindShoppingWhy

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Maurice Sendak

LoveFatherMotherLiveParentsYou

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

Matthew Settle

SchoolChanceDreamNeverAlways

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Jean Piaget

PracticeThoughtArgumentInvention

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

Stephen Frears

GoodThoughtYouNeverUpWhere

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

ScienceI AmSocietyBenefitsAware

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

Roberta Williams

MyselfWomanI AmGameThought

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

Michael Morpurgo

MorningHopeHeartLightI AmSun

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Mireille Mathieu

TimeFirst TimeOldFirstYears

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

WomenGreatMomCookWereSicilian

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Ava DuVernay

WomenMenBondThinkFriendsSee

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.

Peter Welch

ResponsibilityPeopleSayingAmerican

I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal.

Shereen El Feki

MyselfRootsWorldBetterHelpSex

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