"The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?"

-- Bruce Chatwin

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“I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.”
“A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”
“I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only Godâ€™s Word is the test.”
“The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.”
“One often makes music to supplement one's world.”
“I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.”
“If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.”

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