"You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason"

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Marion Jones

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“I heard a statistic, and this one blew my mind, that 1 out of every 4 men in the church are involved in pornography. And yet, when was the last time you heard a pastor talk about pornography? ... Talk to people in law enforcement, and they will tell you that the great majority of sexual assaults were perpetrated by people that were looking at ***** and they wanted to make a reality what they were seeing in the pornography.”
“My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.”
“In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.”

Source : "Q&A: Jenna Dewan-Tatum takes us back in time for '10 years'". Interview with Elizabeth Durano, www.mtv.com. September 14, 2012.
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wildâ€”they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”
“In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.”
“The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.”
“If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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