"I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect."

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Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.1, Candlewick Press

Cynthia Leitich Smith

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“You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
“I do not recall ever receiving a suggestion, let alone an order, from the White House as to how I should make a regulatory decision. How times have changed.”

Source : "Bush 'bending science to his political needs'" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.
“I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.”

Source : Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.7, University of Washington Press
“Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.”
“I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.”
“Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.”
“We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out of school or people come from other studios, they're gonna have different points of view and we want to make sure we're vetting all the ideas to get the best ones. A lot of people are shy about speaking up if this is their first time at Pixar or if they don't have a lot of experience, so we try to encourage that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.”

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