"My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business."

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John Krasinski

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“I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and stripped it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.”

Source : "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
“There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.”

Source : "Brit Awards’ television ratings ‘lowest of 21st century’". Alex Turner's Brit speech for Best British Group and Best British Album Awards, www.nme.com. February 19, 2014.
“Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.”

Source : Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”
“Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.”

Source : Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.147, John Wiley & Sons
“It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.”
“The most terrible things end, at last.”

Source : James Theodore Bent (1885). “The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks”, London, Longmans
“Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.”

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