"Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices."

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Kim Harrison

#Heart Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.”
“I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.”

Source : S. J. Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins
“I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.”
“When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.”
“The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.”
“If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars.”

Source : "Why we need to end the War on Drugs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2014.
“Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.”

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