"She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!"

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Mary Ann Shaffer

#Beautiful Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Someday Quotes

“Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I donâ€™t shout the loudest, and Iâ€™m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably donâ€™t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.”
“[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind, and body, it is sometimes hard to tell which of the three is at work; and the personality of each of the three parties interferes a good deal with that of each of the others. But if you who read will remember that you are an infinite child of God, and can partake of his nature, and that you have given to you the management and direction of your mind and your body, you will be saved many failures.”
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”
“Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.”
“Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.”
“The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween”
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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