"Life is better when we imagine it"

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Source : Marie Arana (2007). “Cellophane”, p.134, Dial Press

Marie Arana

#Life Is Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”
“I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.”
“God works to over throw the ungodly, and increasingly the world will come under the dominion of Christians, not by military aggression, but by godly labor, saving, in vestment, and orientation toward the future... This is where history is going. The future belongs to the people of God, who obey His laws”
“How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.”

Source : "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talks, www.ted.com. October 2012.
“Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.”
“My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.”
“Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.569, Macmillan
“That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.”

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