"You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble."

-- James A. Baldwin

#World Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Treats Quotes

“I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.”
“The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.”

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“Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.”
“Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.”
“Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.”
“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.”
“If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.”

Source : Amy Carmichael, David Hazard (2005). “I Come Quietly to Meet You: An Intimate Journey in God's Presence”, p.25, Bethany House

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