"Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it."

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Source : Ally Carter (2008). “Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)”, Hyperion

Ally Carter

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“I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.”

Source : "Author Terry McMillan, Interrupted by Life". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2005.
“I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.”
“Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.”
“See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.”
“To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.”
“According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.”
“What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said "watch this."”

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