"There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks."

-- Anchee Min

#Book Quotes #Orchids Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Once the tires start to wear out the better car will prevail eventually. It might take a little bit of time, but eventually it will be the best. Thatâ€™s why everyone is trying to make their car good on the long run.”
“I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.”
“the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.”
“For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

Source : "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.
“in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I was going to say it's pretty bad these days, but I actually think it's pretty much the same as it's always been: There are a few really great shows on, and a bunch of garbage. That's the nature of the beast. It's always going to be that way as long as the networks try to second-guess what the American public will like. I wish that they'd just put on what they think is good rather than what they think people will sit through. I bet they'd have the same success rate, but at least the shows that survived would be better.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out.”

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