"But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing."

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Julianna Baggott

“I think Iâ€™ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who youâ€™re truly meant forâ€“for whom you are truly meantâ€“and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.”
“I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.”
“I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.”
“The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.”
“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.”
“Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.”
“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”

Source : "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

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