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Shonda Rhimes

"We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it"

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).

Shonda Rhimes

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“In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”
“If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”
“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.”

Source : Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.”
“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
“To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.”
“There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me.”
“My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I donâ€™t even need to shrug. I simply donâ€™t care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply donâ€™t matter.”

Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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