"My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic."

-- Robert Crais

#Struggle Quotes #Character Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“He who feasts every day, feasts no day.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.193
“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”
“I will never get tired of making chocolate chip cookies. Never.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 05, 2013
“The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.”
“Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.”

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