As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

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Kenji has a hand pressed to his mouth, desperately trying to suppress a smile. He’s shaking his head

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Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

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To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land w

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Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress ab

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Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin

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Live happily thinking about those millions of good people god blessed you with not about the one per

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If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a

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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

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I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever pe

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If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won’t argue with you. But, then

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To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.

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A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

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What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

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Yo Mama’s so ugly, her dentist treats her by mail order.

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We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of

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I'm not even who I am, yet.

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I don't want to be remembered as a woman from Saint Louis who died. I want to be remembered as a wom

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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

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An attitude is more important that circumstances. More powerful than the past, education, finances,

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I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and the

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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr

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I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

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Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat t

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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

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Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies.

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One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentalit

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... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115

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Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

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Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect wi

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It is necessary for everyone to develop their internal personality

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In fact, science is neither materialist nor idealist; it is simply science. It’s impartial and can’t

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He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.

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When two lovers discover a language of their own.

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I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white

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An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an

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Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

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Knowledge is not a heritage to be passed on so much as it is something to be created and continually

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If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.

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The burning flame is the fierce fire.

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Love! In this world of sorrow, you're my source of joy.

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Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

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You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

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Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic

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A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope

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Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very im

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How can the sky be the limit if there are footsteps on the moon?

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This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw versi

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How ya doing?” Gabby’s face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She’d stopped doing her heal

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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the syst

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In arguing, what people lack in intellect they usually make up for in name-calling.

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The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction,

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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

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But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for

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I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, be

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You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, tha

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I'm like the moon," he started, "the hidden side of the moon. Not seen because it don't want to be s

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Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of

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He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to

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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this

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He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh,

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Feel the joy of life when you cry,when you smile, love or feel shy.

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Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if o

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The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norweg

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I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawto

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A clean house is a sad house.

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I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn ne

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A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem

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I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW i

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She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

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The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.

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It's common knowledge in the industry that people often lie, or minimize things, when they participa

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We need at least one enemy to know our own stuff>>>

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That's right," said Door. Her cheek lightly grazed and her dirty reddish hair was tangled; tangled b

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One needn't stop dysfunction just evince and reflect.

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I'm not sure what the moral of the bathroom-stool story is. Perhaps this: it's a good idea to settle

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To understand the universe around us, we must understand the universe within us.

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When I write...I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the ch

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Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty

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It's hard to see where we're going since it's now dark, and I wonder if in some ironic twist of fate

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Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.

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Yes," he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

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I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, e

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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It

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I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teac

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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicat

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When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged

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They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters

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A healthy nation is measured by its level of reconciliation. ‎Reconciliation‬ between people with Go

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Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque cre

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America isn’t that far from totalitarianism.

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Percy?" Annabeth gripped his arm."Oh, bad," he muttered. "Bad. Bad." He looked across the table at F

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Please come out so I can see your face," Darcy said. There was a smile in Thorn's voice when he said

Author: Donna Grant
Quote #231454

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certai

Author: Ignatius of Loyola
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The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.

Author: Thomas S. Monson
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A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

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It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the

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She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their

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Unlike world I use my notebook from both side.

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