"Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity."

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Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.185, Macmillan

Mary E. Pearson

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“In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.”
“When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.”
“No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.”
“I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.”
“It's so funny - my mom when I am dating someone new, all she will get is the name, first and last, and within an hour, I will get an entire life report of the person.”

Source : "Younger Stars Sutton Foster and Nico Tortorella Answer All Your Relationship Questions". www.cosmopolitan.com. September 28, 2016.
“These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.”
“I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.”

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