"I had no idea how greedy my heart really was."

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Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.233, Dial Press

Carol Rifka Brunt

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“It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“They say you get nauseous in a green screen room, but I haven't yet. It's a little odd playing pretend with props and monitors that we're supposed to be watching, but I'll get used to it.”

Source : "From Smallville to V: Laura Vandervoort". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. November 5, 2009.
“I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.”
“I love to challenge myself and try new things and push myself in new directions. Sometimes it's the most nerve-wracking thing because you don't really know what you're doing because you're new to it. But then you always learn the most those ways.”

Source : Source: hollywoodlife.com
“In the final analysis, animals in shelters are not being killed because there are too many of them, because there are too few homes, or because the public is irresponsible. Animals in shelters are dying for primarily one reasonâ€“because people in shelters are killing them.”
“Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.”
“People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better use of them. Sight is a miraculous instrument offering us all the riches of physical life. But we get nothing in this world without paying for it, and in return for all the benefits that sight brings we are forced to give up others whose existence we don't even suspect. These were the gifts I received in such abundance.”

Source : Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.18, New World Library
“Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.”

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