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Mary Ann Shaffer
"one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now" --
Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.214, Dial Press
Mary Ann Shaffer
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“God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.”
Source : John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”
“Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.”
Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press
“In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.”
“The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.”
Source : Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.79, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .”
“If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.”
“Halfway measures are not enough.”
“I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.”
