"Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond."

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Nicky Gumbel

#Pressure Quotes #Coal Quotes #Diamond Quotes

“I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatâ€™s true. After a year, after five. But you donâ€™t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”
“I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.”
“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.120, Macmillan
“People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.”
“People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish”

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