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Sidney Poitier

"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."

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"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

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Amber Hurdle

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Many like to ask the questions, few like to hear the answers."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here. MAKE IT COUNT!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!"

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"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."
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"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."
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"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."
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"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."
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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."
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"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."
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"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."
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"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."
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