"I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections."

-- Leslie Jordan

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“The best teachers are the best storytellers.”

Source : Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.62, Routledge
“I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.”
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black
“Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.”
“I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.”

Source : "Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White: Reunited and Ready for Prime Time". Interview with Terry Shropshire, rollingout.com. November 10, 2011.
“I've always been in music. I started out in music, and I will continue to do music.”
“I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.”
“The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.”

Source : Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.193, Random House

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