Iris Smyles quotes
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“There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the right ones. Most people don't go through life without making mistakes, but sometimes you meet someone who seems to hit all the marks. But they never seem to know very much. They have success and luck but no real wisdom.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
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“Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
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“As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
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“For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
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“I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
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“I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
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“It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.”
-- Iris SmylesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Source : "AS Byatt: woman of letters and ...science!". "All In The Mind" with Antonia Byatt, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2010.
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.”
Source : "The Boondocks". Comic Strip by Aaron McGruder, July 10, 2001.
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com
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Source : "Jackson Told To Apologize for "Anti-Semitic Rant" by wenn.com, November 25, 2005.
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“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”