"Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to."

-- Publilius Syrus

“Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.”
“A lot of my dreams have to do with animals I think because I'm such a huge animal lover. I have so many pets. I always have crazy dreams where I'm like riding an elephant through the jungle or hanging out with a bunch of monkeys.”
“Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.”
“When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.”
“One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it. I know what's working and what's not working.”
“God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.”
“My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it.”

Source : "Diem Brown In Light Of Cancer Spread: 'i Believe I'm Going To Make It'" by Matthew Scott Donnelly, www.mtv.com. October 30, 2014.
“According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.”

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