"Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on"

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Source : Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.945, Ballantine Books

Anne Rice

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“The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.”
“Itâ€™s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people arenâ€™t really interested in books. If youâ€™re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the â€˜selectionâ€™ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.”
“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.
“Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ...”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.”

Source : "Paula Radcliffe plans to run on past London 2012 Olympics". www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.
“I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.”
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.”
“If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.”

Source : "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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