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Six days before Christmas in 1924, I arrived with my thumb poked in my mouth and nary a strand of hair.

— Cicely Tyson Just As I Am: A Memoir (2021)

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"To thine on self be true." "Do that, and you’ll have no regrets."

Just stick with it. Just stick with it. There's always a reason why you keep going in the direction you chose to go in.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew. They are what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

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