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Ellen Burstyn

"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

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"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film."

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"Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?"

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"Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl."

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"All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down."

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"Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory."

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"Change comes with sacrifice... When you want to make a change you must be prepared to make a sacrifice of escaping the comfort zone!"

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"An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I've made, not the elimination of it."

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"Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things."

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"The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end."

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"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy."

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Amber Hurdle

"In with the new, out with the old.' That's what we're told. We have to change, adapt, compromise."

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