"We lift ourselves by our thought."

-- Orison Swett Marden

“She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.”
“For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.”
“I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.”

Source : "Leighton Meester Opens Up About Fat Days" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 21, 2011.
“I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand. Also, the concept of being "tired" doesn't really apply to me. In fact, I don't even consider "tired" tired. If you want to succeed and be successful, you can't let it bother you.”
“Almost any problem, whether it's telling a family story, or telling a network-quality story, or answering a network note, becomes essentially instantly solvable, because you have a bunch of brains sitting in a room.”
“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.”
“I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.”
“I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.”

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