"I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first."

-- Gertrude Atherton

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“You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.”
“I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.”
“I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.”
“The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.”
“The stinkiest hair products have got to be any sort of perm, and Nair. In fact, they smell remarkably similar. Do you think that Nair is just a souped-up version of a perm that makes your leg hair super-curl until it falls off? And can anything that smells that bad be good for you?”

Source : Anita Renfroe (2005). “The Purse-Driven Life: It Really Is All about Me”, Navpress Publishing Group
“In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary”
“I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach”

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