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“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”
Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.224, A&C Black
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“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.”
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“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”
Source : Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259
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“If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.”
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“It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.”
Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2011.
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“When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.”
Source : Song: Tim McGraw
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“For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.”
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“A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home,”
Source : "Lea Michele Opens Up About Life After Cory" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. November 30, 2013.