"She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change."

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Source : FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Feb 24, 2013

Susan Minot

#Opposites Quotes #People Quotes #Changed Quotes

“No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.”
“I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.”
“The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is”
“Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 12, 2012
“Stupid to the power of stupid.”
“I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.”
“Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.”
“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.”

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