"Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

George Elliott Clarke

#Stars Quotes #Defining Quotes #Define Yourself Quotes

“We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.”
“The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.”
“In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.”

Source : "Who Killed Childhood?". www.city-journal.org. Spring 2004.
“I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.”
“In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.”

Source : Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
“You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.”
“Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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