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There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

— Gillian Anderson

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I have feminist bones and when I hear things or see people react to women in certain ways I have very little tolerance.

I wouldn't say I'm normal, but I'm relatively stable. When I think of normalcy I think of mediocrity and mediocrity scares the fuck out of me.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Either everything matters or nothing does.

The Sound of Seas (2016)

Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?

A Vision of Fire (2014)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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