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“The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.”
Source : Meredith Hall (2007). “Without a Map: A Memoir”, p.184, Beacon Press
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“Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!â€), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!â€), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!â€), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.”
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“It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.”
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“Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.”
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“it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.”
Source : "The Tunnel". Book by William H. Gass, www.drmardy.com. 1995.
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“Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.”
Source : Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940.
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“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”
Source : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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“I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.”