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“I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.”
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“There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.”
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“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
Source : Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”
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“I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.”
Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'The "Boris's sister" thing pisses me off'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.
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“We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk.”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
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“My own parents loved each other very much.”
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“I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing,”
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“The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.”
Source : Charles Lyell, M. J. S. Rudwick (1990). “Principles of Geology”, p.163, University of Chicago Press