"I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear."

-- Sebastian Faulks

#Loss Quotes #Shots Quotes #Calmness Quotes

“Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.”
“See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see - out of fear, conformity, or laziness. See the whole world anew each day.”

Source : "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.
“I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.”
“It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.”

Source : Tig Notaro (2016). “I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany”, p.184, Pan Macmillan
“I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.”
“Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.”
“...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.”

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