"Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Jan Brett

#Children Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.”
“It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee
“The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.”
“We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.”
“What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?”

Source : FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Apr 04, 2013
“The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.”
“What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.”

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