"Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both."

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

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“When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too am an elderly person, husband, or a wife. While I am talking with a person, in my heart, nothing exists except that person.”
“On a good day I write, all day.”
“Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.”
“In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.”
“The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.”
“I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.”
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

Source : "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
“I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.”

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