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To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
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To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
To have the courage to fail.
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Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
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Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
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