"Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life."

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Source : "Author Caroline Leavitt Talks about Pictures of You". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 25, 2011.

Caroline Leavitt

#Thinking Quotes #Identity Quotes #New Life Quotes

“If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.”
“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
“For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.”
“I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.”
“President Yar'Adua can rule from anywhere in the World”
“Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
“I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.”

Source : Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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