"A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book."

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Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.100, Broadway Books

Rebecca Mead

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“'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.”

Source : "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.
“Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.”
“The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.”

Source : John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks”
“I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.”
“It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.”

Source : Gary Marcus (2009). “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.”
“I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It's kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we're transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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