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Jan de Bont

"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."

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"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her 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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"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

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"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind."

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"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

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Amber Hurdle

"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

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"In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement."
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