"How much service have I rendered to my people?"

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Source : Ernest Thompson Seton, Julia Moss Seton (2005). “The Gospel of the Redman”, p.3, World Wisdom, Inc

Ernest Thompson Seton

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”
“Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward”
“If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.”
“I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.”
“The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.”

Source : "Olivia Colman in Rev". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
“[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.”
“One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.”
“I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.”

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