"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."

-- Lady Bird Johnson

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“Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.”
“I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations”
“Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.”
“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”
“The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.”
“As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.”

Source : "Amy Sherman-Palladino on Bunheads, Gilmore Girls, and not making mediocre TV". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. January 14, 2013.
“The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.”

Source : I.F. Stone (1972). “Polemics and prophecies, 1967-1970”, Vintage Books USA
“I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.”

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