"We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary."

-- Rachel Holmes

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Biographies Quotes

“I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.”
“Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.”

Source : Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940.
“Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss”

Source : Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.121, Pan Macmillan
“No brain is stronger than its weakest think.”

Source : "Laughs: A Sovereign Remedy for Boredom". Book by Thomas Lansing Masson, p. 167, 1926.
“My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.”
“We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.”
“Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.”
“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”

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