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“Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.”
Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.133, Penguin
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“I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.”
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“Let's be honest, I don't think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood - it's a place you go to work. And once you've hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It's definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.”
Source : "This isn't the year for ideological purity. Don't vote for Jill Stein" by Jill Abramson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2016.
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“There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.”
Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket
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“The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.”
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“A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.”
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“I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.”
Source : Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.86, Simon and Schuster