"A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy."

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Source : "Gina Prince-Bythewood: Gina the Dreamer. The 'Beyond the Lights' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 21, 2014.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

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“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.35, Spectra
“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”
“To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 16, 2018
“In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.”
“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
“It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.”
“A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.”
“When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.”

Source : Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.171, Penguin

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