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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things. ↗

— Clive Owen

#different things #doing #i #i love #keep

In the real world, children love me. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#love #love me #me #real #real world

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#age #based #got #grandparents #i

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold. ↗

— Michael Chang

#events #french #french open #glued #i

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#black #brother #different #guy #i

All my children inherited perfect pitch. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#children #inherited #perfect #pitch

If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks. ↗

— Alexander Masters

#friendship #homeless #strength #stuart-shorter #death

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#away #because #chance #couple #gave

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções ↗

— Carlos Messa

#education #educação #family #filhos #pais