Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

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I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. – Jim Carrey

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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. — Paulo Coelho

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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you? ― Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Just be yourself, there is no one better.

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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

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Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

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You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

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