"One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately."

-- Anita Brookner

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“Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.”
“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.”
“I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.”

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“Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Â Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the LonelinessÂ really begins. Â Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought. Â When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away. Â But it doesn't go away. Â So some of usÂ doÂ instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.”
“I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.”
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.”
“There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.”
“I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.”

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