"I didnt quit movies. They quit me."

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Source : Jane Powell (2014). “The Girl Next Door...And How She Grew”, p.81, Untreed Reads

Jane Powell

#Quitting Quotes

“As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.”
“When mind controls man, itâ€™s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, itâ€™s...Yoga”
“I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.”
“Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?”
“I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.”
“The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.”
“The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.”
“I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.”

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