"My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent."

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Rita Moreno

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“Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and world peace. Tuesday, 4 August 1914 brought that experiment to an abrupt halt.”

Source : Kenneth O. Morgan (1984). “The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain”, p.522, Oxford University Press, USA
“Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon...”
“I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.”
“I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1962). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties : with "The Resumption of History in the New Century"”, p.309, Harvard University Press
“For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.”

Source : Jonathan MAYHEW (1750). “A Discourse [on Rom. xiii. 1-8] concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I., and on the anniversary of his death, etc”, p.55
“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”

Source : Eloise Jarvis McGraw (2007). “The Moorchild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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