"Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.
“I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...”
“You never really want anything you can easily have.”
“Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books
“McKinney, Texas is the number one place to live in the country. It's certainly the number place to live in Texas according to Forbes and all these other. Wonderfully integrated, it's upscale.”
“I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.”
“At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'”
“Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.”

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