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Joseph Conrad quote: "A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time..."

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

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If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that. Kristen Stewart
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I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love; I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.) Stephen King
Wilma Rudolph quote: "I don't know why I run so fast. I just run."
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run. Wilma Rudolph
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. Samuel Richardson
But when you’re a kid it’s like you’re wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can’t see anything except what’s in the dead center of the lenses Russell Banks
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. George Carlin
At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try. Erika Christensen
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused. Ernest Hemingway
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And yet the fear! Franz Kafka
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent. Jeanne Moreau
Jim Rohn quote: "motivation alone is not enough. if you have an idiot and you..."
motivation alone is not enough. if you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. Jim Rohn