"It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'"

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Source : "Helen Mirren confronts the final female taboo" By Sarah Rainey, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

Helen Mirren

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Destiny Quotes

“I have no problem doing gay stuff, I really don't care.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.”
“The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.”

Source : James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.51, Anchor
“I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.”
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
“You can only control what you can control.”
“I had never seen a real live dead person.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.117, Macmillan
“Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!”

Source : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 18, 2017

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