"Predisposition is not predestination."

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Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.195, Delacorte Press

William Landay

#Predestination Quotes

“When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.”
“My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.”
“That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.”
“I'm an actor that loves to eat on camera. I love it. Something about the act of eating means that you actually can't act as much. You have to be involved in the very real task of trying to ingest sustenance without choking and dying. Something about that process takes the heat off trying to act and often feels more natural.”

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“Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.”
“I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.”
“People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.”
“I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.”

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

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