"When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest."

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Source : Graham Swift (2012). “The Sweet Shop Owner”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

Graham Swift

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Expecting Quotes

“If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
“It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.”
“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”
“What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.”
“It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.”
“The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories â€” or you can use it to paint dreams.”
“The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.”

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