"We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive."

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Source : Salley Vickers (2008). “The Other Side of You: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

Salley Vickers

#Long Quotes #Alive Quotes #Able Quotes

“The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.”

Source : "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.
“Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.”
“Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.”
“No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possessionis important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in itsentirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever inour historical effort to redeem the whole country.”
“You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.”
“The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.”

Source : "Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 3, 2010.
“I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...”
“The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.”

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