"Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way."

-- Bill Crawford

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“There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.”
“For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.”
“It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?”
“My bed is actually two king beds put together.”
“I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'”
“An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.”
“If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.”
“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Source : "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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