"I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Lalla Ward

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“I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.”
“I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.”
“Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.”
“If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2014). “Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series”, p.116, Penguin UK
“He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.”
“Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.”
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”

Source : Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)
“There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.”

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