"There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you."

-- Edward Gorey

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.”
“Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”

Source : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books
“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.”
“When we Consistently Generate Thoughts of Giving ... we Attract the Energy of Giving Back to Us”
“Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.”
“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”
“The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.”

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