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“So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.”
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“The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.”
Source : "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.
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“Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.”
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“It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.”
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“To be authentic literally means to be your own author.”
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“An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.”
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“Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.”
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“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”
Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt