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“Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.”
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“Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.”
Source : FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013 
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“The universal basis for the categorisation 'woman' will, no doubt, be constantly shifting but it is important not to deny it's existence altogether. There is a partly biological basis for this identification. The 'nature' of woman may be conceptualised in the early Greek sense of a force or a power, in its turn shaped by forces outside it, rather than in terms of some set of properties.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.”
Source : John Novak (1994). “How to Meditate: A Step-by-step Guide to the Art and Science of Meditation”, p.12, Crystal Clarity Publishers
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“I look at it this way: I got to do better than yesterday.”
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“They don’t think “I care,†“I hurt,†or “I have feelings.†It just seems like I’m always “wrong,†always “selfish,†always “self-centered†and everything else that’s negative and destructive.”
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“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”
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“I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.”
Source : "From “Don’t Mean Nothing” to “Dance With My Father”: A Conversation With Richard Marx". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.
