"I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again."

-- Melissa Bank

#Teacher Quotes #Boys Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect.”
“I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.”

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“I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.”
“If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.”
“I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”
“The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.”
“I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.”
“You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”

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