"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

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Source : James A. Michener (2007). “Chesapeake”, p.278, Ballantine Books

James A. Michener

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Success Quotes

“There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.”
“It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!”
“But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there.”
“The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.”
“I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.”

Source : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us,”

Source : "Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women" by Sandra Fluke, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.
“A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.”

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