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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find. ↗

— James A. Michener

#fail #find #journey #make #matter

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#difference #each #make #make a difference #together

I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#actually #any #asked #awkward #because

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American. ↗

— Roger Michell

#american #europe #european #feel #i

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director. ↗

— Roger Michell

#frame #i #more #out #stay

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. ↗

— James A. Michener

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. ↗

— James A. Michener

#concern #crucial #does #else #except

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ↗

— Bette Midler

#balance #few #fringes #heavy #human

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. ↗

— James A. Michener

#army #done #her #herself #i

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. ↗

— James A. Michener

#century #complains #explains #great #i