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last updated: November 28, 2023

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
-- J.A. Konrath

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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
-- Frances O'Connor

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.”

Source : Farrah Abraham (2014). “My Teenage Dream Ended”, p.153, Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc
“We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, country, and planet. Who can ever understand exactly why or how it comes down as it does? The bottom line is, here we are. Whatever, wherever we are, this is what we've got. It's up to us whether we do it as easy time or hard time.”
“I have sometimes, probably, forgotten - and I know I have - to pat the back of someone or said thank you enough times or maybe even once sometimes I wish I were perfect. I wish I were just the nicest, nicest, nicest person on Earth. But I am a business person.If I were a man no one would ever say that I was arrogant.”
“The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help”
“Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.”
“My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.”
“I started going gray in my early twenties.”
“The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.”
“I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.”
“Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.”