"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."

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Source : Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

Anna Quindlen

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“Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.”

Source : Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.122, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.”
“I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.”
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.
“I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!”
“I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . . It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.”
“My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.”

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