"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.”
“If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.”

Source : "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.
“It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.”
“Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. â€œHe fights with us. Weâ€™re an army.â€ â€œAn army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?â€ she asked Glenna. â€œWitch.â€ â€œSo, weâ€™ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.”
“A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.”

Source : "Veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 11, 2007.
“There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.105

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