"Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning."

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Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.26, Yearling

Louise Fitzhugh

#Morning Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Important Quotes

“You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.”
“Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.”
“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.”
“Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.”
“The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.”
“The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.”
“I remember one of the first things Helmut Newton on one of his last shoots, in 2004, said was that he couldn't believe how thin I was. He was like, "Whatever happened to women?" He also made me wear rubber nipples. It was amazing to be in a situation where you have to create but you don't feel any pressure. He had such confidence that it made things really easy. There's a natural sort of process of something coming to life, which I really liked. It was like, "We're here, and let's make you lay on a bed of nails." But it didn't seem contrived or overly thought-out. It was easy.”

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