"Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through."

-- Janelle Monae

#Shining Quotes

“I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.”
“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”
“Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.”
“I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks”

Source : "Foreword" by Paul Samuelson in "The Principles of Economics Course" edited by ed. Phillips Saunders and William B. Walstad, 1990.
“There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story.”
“The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.”
“Just so you know I never had a dad either, but that's another story for another time.”
“Time can be an ally or an enemy.”

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