"If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June."

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Source : Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

Gladys Taber

#June Quotes #Giving Quotes #Wish Quotes

“There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room ...”
“The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.142, Harvard University Press
“Now let us return to light, safety, and society.”
“I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.”
“I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.”
“I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.”
“The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.”
“It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.”

Source : "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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