"Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport."

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Source : Joyce Maynard (1988). “Domestic affairs: enduring the pleasures of motherhood and family life”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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“It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved.”

Source : Isa Bowman (1900). “The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman”
“For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.”

Source : 'Piers Plowman' B text (ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, 1987) Passus 10, l. 297
“In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Silence is the mother of truth.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press
“As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.”

Source : "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.
“I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.”
“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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