"it is not given to everyone to shine in adversity."

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Source : Jane Aiken Hodge (1970). “Marry in Haste”

Jane Aiken Hodge

#Adversity Quotes #Shining Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.”
“Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.”
“While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.”
“I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.”
“I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.”
“If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?”
“I want my kids to experience passion. I want them to see that I have things I feel passionate about because it is such a great feeling to really love something.”

Source : "Joan Cusack: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2011.
“Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.”

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