"One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion."

-- Hal Hellman

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Want Quotes

“To some people everything is permitted.”
“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.”
“Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.”
“I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.”
“I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.”
“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.”
“With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.”
“I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.”

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