"I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me."

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Source : Carol Matas (1997). “After the War”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

Carol Matas

#Strong Quotes #Past Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I love you, Kitten. There's nothing on this earth or under it that can change that.”
“I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.”
“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.”

Source : "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.
“I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.”
“It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.”
“That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.”
“I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.”
“Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.”

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