"This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me."

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Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Raquel Cepeda

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“Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.”
“If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.”
“I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits. He said, "I've got a thing I'm stuck on." ï»¿I can hear the wind a blowin' - he already had that. You and me lord, we had it all. ï»¿He only had that first verse. For some reason he was stuck. But that's how that came about.”

Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.
“Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to”
“You have to take risks.”
“As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.”

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