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“What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.”
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“Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.”
Source : Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”
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“Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.”
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“Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.”
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“We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.”
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“Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.”
Source : Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.21, University of Chicago Press
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“I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.”
Source : "Jennifer Lopez Talks Body Image And Finding Her Way In Hollywood". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013. 
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“Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.”
