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“I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.”
Source : Jenny Colgan (2011). “Meet Me At The Cupcake Café”, p.45, Hachette UK
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“Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.”
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“It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
Source : "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.
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“Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.”
Source : "Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 13, 2014. 
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“I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.”
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“In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
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“Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.”
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“You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”
