"I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so."

-- Althea Gibson

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“Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.”
“I tell you this: You are your own rule-maker. You set the guidelines. And you decide how well you have done; how well you are doing. For you are the one who has decided Who and What You Really Are-and Who You Want to Be. And you are the only one who can assess how well you're doing.”
“It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.
“Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite right. Then a much better poem may come rather fast and you wonder why you bothered with all that work on the earlier poem. Actually, the hard work you do on one poem is put in on all poems. The hard work on the first poem is responsible for the sudden ease of the second. If you just sit around waiting for the easy ones, nothing will come. Get to work.”
“I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.”
“We must not forget that â€¦ monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown.”

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