"Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. Youâ€™re not ready for it, but if youâ€™re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than youâ€™d planned."

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Source : Nora Roberts (2012). “Megan's Mate: The Calhouns”, p.80, Penguin

Nora Roberts

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“We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”
“Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.”
“This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.”
“It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.”
“The majority of Americans get their news and information about what is going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject to punishment at the hands of that very government.”
“When we want a cup of tea our main wish is to drink tea, but to fulfill this wish we naturally develop the secondary wish to find a cup. In a similar way, the main wish of those who have great compassion is to protect all living beings from their suffering, but to fulfill this wish they know they must first attain Buddhahood themselves and so they naturally develop the secondary wish to attain enlightenment.”
“The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.”
“I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.”

Source : "Lions For Lambs - Andrew Garfield interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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