"So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am."

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Source : John Marsden (2001). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Marsden

#People Quotes #Different Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I've gotta breathe it, I've gotta eat it, I've gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.”
“I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.”
“Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.”
“There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.”

Source : John Bowring, “Blessings Of Instruction”
“It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.”
“I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.”
“The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.”

Source : "F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone on his billion-dollar brand". Interview with Atifa Silk, www.campaignlive.com. November 14, 2014.

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