"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

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Anne Rice

#World Quotes #Diplomats Quotes #Nuance Quotes

“The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.”

Source : Ellen Key, Mamah Bouton Borthwick (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”
“I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'”
“The Cry Baby character is so, like, based off of myself that it just really is just from personal experience. And when I was younger I was called a cry baby and made fun of for being super emotional and taking things way to personal.”
“Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.”
“I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me. I did take notes, but just because I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was five. You don't have any sort of outlandish, shocking, extraordinary, horrifying experience without writing it down, because I know and knew that you forget things. No matter how outrageous and amazing and extraordinary and seemingly unforgettable an experience is, it's kind of like a dream. It will erode inevitably, for me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.”
“Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.”
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

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