"People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table."

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Connie Willis

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.”
“The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.”
“[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'”
“I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.”
“You try to squeeze a little more Charmin in the pads when you face him.”
“I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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