Mary Docter quotes

“I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.”
-- Mary Docter

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“I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.”
-- Mary Docter

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“I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.”
-- Mary Docter

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“I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.”
-- Mary Docter

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“Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.”
-- Mary Docter

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“Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.”
-- Mary Docter

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“I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.”
-- Mary Docter

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“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

“Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.”

“All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.”

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books