"Manuscripts do not burn."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

“It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.”
“I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.”
“I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.”
“We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.”
“To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.”
“I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.”
“I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.”
“It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.”

Source : Nancy Pickard (1989). “Marriage Is Murder”, Pocket

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