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«My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for president. I'm the only sane one in the family.»
«It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.»
«Being head of the Church is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle while riding on a roller coaster.»
«The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.»
«It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives.For that I give thanks.»
«Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.»
«My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.»
«I always feel like I'm on a roller-coaster, but I never want to get off! There's a certain high you're always on.»
«How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?»