"I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story."

-- Kerry Washington

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“Focus on remedies, not faults.”

Source : Jack Nicklaus, Ken Bowden (1990). “The Short Cuts to Lower Scores”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.”
“I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.”

Source : Greg Iles (1999). “The Quiet Game”, p.468, Penguin
“If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.”
“[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.”
“The only love that I really believe in is a motherâ€™s love for her children.”
“I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.”
“Unadaptability is often a virtue.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.365, Macmillan

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