"I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of."

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Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

Kate Grenville

#Thinking Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Way Quotes

“Violence is not funny.”
“I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.”
“It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on...”
“We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.”

Source : "The Electric Brain". Interview with Lauren Aguirre, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.
“Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.”
“if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.”
“There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.”
“I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.”

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