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“I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.”
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“Remember yourself always and everywhere.”
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“I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it.”
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“I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!”
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“I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.”
Source : Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org.
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“I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.”
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“That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.”
Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.141
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“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.”
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“Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.”
Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf
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“In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.”