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“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”
Source : Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.255
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“When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.”
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“So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Hollywood needs to make a better job of making sure we explore the other side the spectrum. If you have a very macho guy, maybe have more of the opposite who aren't like that, who can still get the girl.”
Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
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“I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.”
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“I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.”
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“I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the Examiner for the first time.”
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“I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!”
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“Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.”
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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Source : Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt