"I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously."

-- Octavia Spencer

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Promise Quotes

“There is the before. And then there is the after. Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.”

Source : Allison Winn Scotch (2010). “The One That I Want: A Novel”, p.270, Crown
“There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.”
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
“Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.”
“My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.”
“The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.”
“Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.”

Source : Donald Richie (2007). “A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics”, p.47, Stone Bridge Press
“And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.”

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