"I've come to realize that life is what you make it."

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Source : Jude Deveraux (2004). “Counterfeit Lady”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

Jude Deveraux

#Realizing Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.”
“Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.”
“I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.”
“I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.”
“People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.”
“I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.”
“If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.”

Source : "The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back" by Will Morley, www.bbc.com. October 21, 2014.

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