"I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Adelaide Clemens

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“People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo. ...”

Source : Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.201, Simon and Schuster
“You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.”
“Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.”
“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.”

Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”
“Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.”
“It's lovely to see people so happy.”
“I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.”
“From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.”

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