"My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it."

-- Sarah Polley

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“Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.”
“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
“Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.”

Source : Agatha Christie (2000). “The Big Blue House Call”, Pocket Books
“Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.”
“Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me, a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives, our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope, a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.”
“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”
“People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.”

Source : Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja (2001). “Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business”, p.229, Crown Business
“A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.”

Source : "Colm Meaney Manifest Destiny". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 7, 2012.

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