"If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables."

-- Lisa Alther

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“Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.”
“The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.”

Source : Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education
“I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.”

Source : "Actress-singer Nell Carter dies", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2003.
“I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.”
“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”
“By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.”
“I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.”

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