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“Not exactly. I see a girl who wants to present someone special to the world. Someone beautiful. The pinnacle of beauty. But she has lost her hold on reality. Real beauty isn’t thin. It isn’t size two, unless you happen to be four foot ten. What the world sees when they look at you is someone who believes self-worth is all about how she looks, and that very often means that what she’s missing is love. Not someone else’s love. But love and respect for herself.”
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“One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.”
Source : Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Great Zoo of China”, p.451, Simon and Schuster
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“Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.”
Source : Source: app.longform.org
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“God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.”
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“I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.”
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“Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.”
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“Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great”
Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Jumanji, polarexpress.com. 1982. 
