"We spend our whole lives recovering from high school."

-- Paula Danziger

#School Quotes #Adolescence Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself that] every time I swam, it was going to get easier-and it did. When you're working toward a fitness goal, you just need to start. It's not going to be pretty, your body is going to scream at you, but each time you'll get better.”
“Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.”
“I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.”
“i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.
“When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.”
“That was probably one of the things that if I look back at my career and say what is something I would try and do a little bit differently, Iâ€™d try and be a little bit more loose playing the game. Have a little more fun doing it.”
“Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.”
“There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.”

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