"When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul."

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Source : Dornford Yates (1928). “Berry and CO.”

Dornford Yates

#Soul Quotes #Affection Quotes #Praying Quotes

“Stillness is your essential nature.”
“Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
“Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.”
“I must have been Cinderella. It was nice...I was so happy...I guess it's already midnight.”
“That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.”
“When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.”

Source : Biography magazine, April 2002.

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