"It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants."

-- Leon Kass

#Children Quotes #Want Quotes #Steps Quotes

“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.”
“I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.”
“There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world”
“Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.”

Source : "Donnie Yen Exclusive Interview: Discussing ‘Dragon’ And The Censored Ending Audiences May Never See". Interview with Chris C. Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.
“I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.”

Source : "‘Hello I Must Be Going’ Star Melanie Lynskey On Her Bout With Depression After ‘Heavenly Creatures’ and Proving Naysayers Wrong" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 05, 2012.
“There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome.”
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipÃ¨d out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.”

Source : 'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 75

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