"Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are."

-- Alice Munro

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“So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head. "He hasn't returned my calls since Barcelona." He leaned closer and whispered, "I think he might still be mad at me." "Yeah, well, that makes two of us." "Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.”
“Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.”
“I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.”

Source : "Annie Ilonzeh Doesn’t See Color But Is Happy To Be Charlie’s First Black Angel" by Rebecca Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.
“And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.”
“Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.”
“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
“Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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