"It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!"

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Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

Eleanor Porter

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“Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.”
“Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.”

Source : "Dmoch lamp line named for Francis Ford Coppola" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. March 30, 2011.
“Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.”

Source : Source: www.rezxmag.com
“I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.”
“How can I ignore the boy next door?”

Source : "Song: The Boy Next Door". Performed in the musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis" by Judy Garland, November 22, 1944.
“It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.”

Source : Interview with Robert Pattinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2015.
“Itâ€™s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking itâ€™s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, â€˜Iâ€™m not saving lives; Iâ€™m not a brain surgeon.â€™ And thatâ€™s trueâ€”Iâ€™m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and thatâ€™s a pretty important task.”
“I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.”

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