"It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine."

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Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.287, Penguin

Alison Goodman

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“When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'”
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
“Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.”
“There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.”
“Another factor is the education and culture in which you grow up. I didn't grow up in the culture of victory, where you are expected to be or have to be, the best. It was not at all like that in my family. Tennis was really a hobby. If it led to something, great. If not, there were other things in life. I think that was something I was missing at some points in my career, because when I see Hingis or the Williamses, you see how they were educated for this: to win, to be the best, a bit the American mentality. Number one. Number one. Number one. I didn't have this.”

Source : "For Mauresmo, another try at the title that means most to her". Interview with Christopher Clarey, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2006.
“I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.”
“I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.”
“You can be happy instantly by wanting what you already have.”

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