"I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me."

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Source : Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.108, Penguin Group

Kelley Armstrong

#Responsibility Quotes #Saying No Quotes #Authority Quotes

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.”
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
“I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.”
“What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.”
“A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent”
“The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.”

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