"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

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Source : "Olivia Wilde's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.

Oscar Wilde

#Inspirational Quotes #Single Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.”
“A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.”

Source : "Maggie Gyllenhaal: At 37 I was 'too old' for role opposite 55-year-old man" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2015.
“I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless but still chic!”
“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”

Source : "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview With Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.
“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin
“The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.”

Source : Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”
“It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.”
“We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words”

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