"Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others."

-- Frances Moore LappÃ©

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“The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.”
“We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good... or at least put-out.”
“For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.”
“Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.”
“I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.”

Source : "The 'simple gambler' worth $9bn" by Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.
“We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.”
“Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the equivalent of a medium-sized medical school class from suicide alone. Most physician suicides are due to depression or manic-depressive illness, both of which are eminently treatable. Physicians, unfortunately, not only suffer from a higher rate of mood disorders than the general population, they also have a greater access to very effective means of suicide.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.127, Pan Macmillan
“All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.”

Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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