"As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality."

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Source : Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.269, Macmillan

Jennifer Baumgardner

#Reality Quotes #Perception Quotes #Intimidating Quotes

“Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.”
“Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.”
“Writing and travel broaden your ***** if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
“It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.”
“The sun has been there for 500, 600 years ...”
“It comes back to what Chief Jay Strongbow told us years ago, 'In this business you can make friends or you can make money'. And I remember lookin at Kev and X-Pac and going, I already got some friends, I'd like the money.”
“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.”
“You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!”

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