"Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree."

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

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“When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.”
“Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.”

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“Unless you go forward then you are going back.”
“Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.”
“I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.”

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“Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.”
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”

Source : "Speeches of Adlai Ewing Stevenson", (p. 99), 1952.

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