"You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things,"

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Source : "Joan Fontaine, Oscar-winning actor, dies at 96", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2013.

Joan Fontaine

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“It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.”
“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
“What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?”
“Mercy is stronger than your sword.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2014). “The House of Night Novellas, 4-Book Collection”, p.119, St. Martin's Griffin
“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

Source : "Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2013.
“This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.67, Rutgers University Press
“I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.”

Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.74, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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