"How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane."

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Source : Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

Maggie Shipstead

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“A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a clichÃ©, but there's some truth to it: Inuit who live above the Arctic Circle use insulated refrigerators to keep their food from freezing in subzero temperatures”

Source : Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.117, Penguin
“I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.”
“I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.”

Source : "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.
“Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.”
“I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.”
“As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.”
“Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.”

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