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“Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.”
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“In life it is training rather than birth which counts.”
Source : Saikaku Ihara (1955). “Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth”
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“But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.”
Source : Elise Broach (2005). “Shakespeare's Secret”, p.65, Macmillan
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“The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.”
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“...if I don't look after my body, I'll have nowhere to live.”
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“I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts that I brought in. But with a director that really deals with images too, that takes the play to another level. We have to remember that theater takes place in the third dimension, and we have to take into consideration the visual aspect of the play. I think images are important for the theater. Because I do write images.”
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“I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.”
Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.112, Ballantine Books
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“We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.”
