"You think you're safe. Until you see a picture like that. And then you know you'll always be a slave to the present because the present is more powerful than the past, no matter how long ago the present happened."

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Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#Powerful Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.”
“The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.”
“She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She's just afraid.”

Source : Julie Anne Peters (2009). “Rage: A Love Story”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing it. At the end, it lost the essence. It lost the first idea, the energy that it had, it's going down after every change. And at the end it's something soft and too much rewritten or too much rebuilt that doesn't have the same energy as the beginning. So, I like the first takes because of that, you know. It has that first energy that sometimes it's difficult to recreate.”
“My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.”
“Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.”
“With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.”

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