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“Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”
Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.437, Pan Macmillan
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“The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.”
Source : Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.
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“Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.”
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“Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.”
Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.”
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“There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.”
Source : "Exclusive! Jesse Metcalfe Shares His Happy Relationship Secrets". Interview with Gerri Miller, www.yourtango.com. August 7, 2013.
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“The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.”
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“Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.”