"I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know."

-- Billy Lawrence

#Character Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.”
“Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.”
“Hate wears you down and doesnâ€™t hurt your enemy. Itâ€™s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.”
“Let's go back, back to the Beginning...”
“There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.”
“We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.”
“Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.”
“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to . . . and then some!”

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