"You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not."
Octavia Spencer
"He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on it. It felt fresh and clean and unsafe, nothing like the heavy warm lard of palace life. The protective plastic wrap had been peeled off."
Lev Grossman
"My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad."
Sam Shepard
"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out."
Max Lucado
"Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go."
Andrew Pyper
"It's not his bodythat changesright away.It's somethinginside. He sayshe wants tobe a littleweaker. I don'tunderstand.I say 'thinner?'and he says'no, I wantto be strongerin a differentway.' notbecause of me,but for me."
David Levithan
"Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world."
Leslie Daniels
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
Jean Piaget
"It has many forms, not all of which look like what you see in movies."
Carya Cunningham-Sloan
"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."
Eric Roth
"Absolutely. No more pretending!"
Dana Burkey
"When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets."
Roger Moore
"He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences."
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