"When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds."

-- Mireille Guiliano

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“People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.”
“I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.”
“The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.”
“One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time”
“Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.”
“Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.”
“I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.339

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