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“It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.”
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“Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.”
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“Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.”
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“Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.”
Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.430, A&C Black
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“The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights”
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“What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?”
Source : Nel Noddings (1991). “Women and Evil”, p.23, Univ of California Press
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“I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.”
Source : "Punk Puppet Apocalypse". Interview with Lina Lecaro, www.laweekly.com. February 28, 2006.
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“The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House