"What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Years Quotes

“The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3, 1989.
“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
“Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.”
“Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.”

Source : Brian Jacques (1986). “Redwall”, Ace Books
“Be the one to stand out in the crowd.”
“All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films.”
“Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.”

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