"Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family."

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Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.102, The Overlook Press

Rosie Thomas

#Important Quotes #Way Quotes

“â€ŽImprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters.”
“Sorry if we can't all be unoriginal but I have a mold to break.”
“There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.”

Source : Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.
“The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.”
“However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.
“Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,”
“Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.”

Source : "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.
“It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadnâ€™t hit you, the slumlord you hadnâ€™t offended, the malaria you hadnâ€™t caught.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.13, Portobello Books

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