"no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend."

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Source : Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

Winifred Holtby

#Strong Quotes #Legends Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.”
“I just do the job to the best of my ability and then you have to move on. You have to watch things back to learn from them, but I try not to dwell or worry about what people might think. I don't read reviews if I can help it.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I have an acting coach that I work with on everything that I do. The thing about my preparation process for getting ready for a role is I have sex with as many people as I can.”
“I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.”
“I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.”
“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.”

Source : Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.73, Schocken
“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”

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