"One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants."

-- Donald Johanson

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“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
“What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.”
“I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.”
“My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'”
“I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.”

Source : "Need to Meet: Isabelle Fuhrman". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. March 1, 2012.
“I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.”
“I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.”
“Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.216, WaterBrook

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