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“Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.”
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“What one cannot, another can.”
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“Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.”
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“Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.”
Source : Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.4, University of Chicago Press
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“From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.”
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“The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.”
Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.”
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“I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.”
Source : "'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli Answers Questions From His Fans". Interview with Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2009.