Bobbie Ann Mason Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes. – Bobbie Ann Mason Acutely Quotes Clothes Quotes Conscious Quotes Country Quotes Food Quotes Grow Quotes Inferior Quotes Lived Quotes Mayfield Quotes Mile Quotes People Quotes Town Quotes My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I’d go out back with the dog and bring them in. The small family farm is dying; people’s lives are being dislocated.
Ellen Tauscher Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief. – Ellen Tauscher
Matt Skiba As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn’t like it. It wasn’t cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn’t have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things. – Matt Skiba
Mark Fisher The reality of nostalgia is nowhere better invoked than at the end of Tarkovsky’s ‘Solaris.’ When the camera pans away from Kelvin embracing his father on the rain-soaked steps of his dacha, we realise that the scene is yet another of the simulations produced by the inscrutable planet. – Mark Fisher
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