"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."

-- Mary Antin

#Birthday Quotes #House Quotes #Police Quotes

“We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting”
“...to make the world safe for democracy.”
“Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.”
“I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.”
“A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.”
“I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.”
“That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.”
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.”

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