"OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

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“A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1989). “Eden Close: a novel”, Harcourt
“The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.”
“Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.”
“Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.”
“Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm.”

Source : "Fictional character: Irène". "Priceless", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.”
“My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.”

Source : "Jason Bateman Talks Horrible Bosses 2, The Family Fang, What He Learned Directing Bad Words, Ipo Man, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 25, 2014.
“People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.”

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