"I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits."

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Shy Quotes #Want Quotes #Limits Quotes

“I guess my writing has changed as my life has.”
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.”
“The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”
“Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.”
“Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.”
“I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

Source : Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1247, Ageless Reads
“It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because as we're showing the movie now, we're getting a lot of response about things [people] think are very topical. And the intention is never to approach it from the outside-in, which is to say, "Ah, this is going on, let's draw that in."”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com

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