"[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves."

-- Isabel Briggs Myers

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Long Quotes

“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”
“There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.”
“Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.”
“When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.”
“I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.”
“The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.”

Source : Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1795). “The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..”, p.48
“I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.”
“How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.”

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