"I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

#Laughter Quotes #Oxygen Quotes

“I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.”
“A star is only as good as her last picture.”
“That which makes you different is what makes you strong. Whether you're gay, straight, purple, orange, dinosaur; I don't care.”

Source : "Pharrell's 'Marilyn Monroe' is so not what you think it's about" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 6, 2014.
“We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.”

Source : "Northern Exposure". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990 - 1995.
“Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.”
“Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.”
“Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.”
“I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.”

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