"You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself."

-- Sonia Sanchez

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“True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.”
“My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.”

Source : "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.
“When I was your age â€” about, ooh, a thousand years ago â€” I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”
“There is no rank in sacrifice.”

Source : Josephus Daniels (1922). “Our Navy at War”
“If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.”

Source : "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". Book by Mary Douglas, 1966.
“I'm also really fulfilled by having a production company and producing movies, and learning about how that works and happens. It's a totally, entirely separate skill set and it's one that I happen to also enjoy. So, I intend to cultivate all of those things until I can't anymore. That's my goal. I love to be challenged and busy, and so far, so good. I'm just going to do whatever I can to continue to encourage that.”
“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all. The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed. I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones. The broken carrot noses.”
“We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.”

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