#vin

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ↗

— Amy Tan

#childhood #difficult #expect #had #having

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#important #important thing #living #long #people

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#life #philosophy #religion #wisdom #life

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#biggest #biggest mistake #conversation #listen #mistake

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#always #big #collection #collector #fights

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#deep #fun #having #having fun #i

The loving are the daring. ↗

— Bayard Taylor

#loving

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#bar #being #living #make #me