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- Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
- Dorothy Draper
- There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.
- Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
- Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.
- Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
- Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
- I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.
- Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
- In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
- Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
- Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
- We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 1898
- Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Address at the laying of the cornerstone of the bunker hill monument
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