"As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Natalie Portman

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“As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.”
“You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

Source : Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34
“If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.”

Source : Roy Peter Clark (2011). “Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces”, p.10, Hachette UK
“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

Source : Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company
“Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.”
“Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.”

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