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“An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.”
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“...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...”
Source : Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.85, Pan Macmillan
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“I don't limit myself.”
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“When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.”
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“The Internet is an actor's best friend.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.”
Source : "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.
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“I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!”
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“Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page, I'd give--though it might seem bold-- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold.”
Source : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28