Tamara Ireland Stone Quotes

#1. I stood there and stared at it - this colorful expanse of paper, with its topographic mountain ranges and changeable shades of blue to depict the various depths of the ocean - and saw a map of the world, but knew it wasn't mine. My world was much, much smaller

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#2. I'm completely in love with you. What if I didn't leave, after all?

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#3. You seem to know how to articulate your feelings and share them with other human beings. I'm afraid my gift is the exact opposite; I'm skilled at holding everything in.

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#4. But now, everything is so quiet. Not just the pool, but my mind, too. I don't even feel the urge to swim to the beat of a song. I'm mentally spent. Out of words. Out of thoughts. It feels so good to be this empty. It's so peaceful. -Sam

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#5. What you see ... And on the other side: It isn't me.

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#6. Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

Tyra Banks

#7. They who ask for no sign shall have many.

Coventry Patmore

#8. It has a quality other countries call cultural imperialism, which, we have found, means a tasty culture that other peoples readily enjoy, an infective culture, if you will, from which ideas and usages spread quickly.

Sheri S. Tepper

#9. It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

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#10. Crappy mall food cures everything.

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#11. Time is the longest distance between two places.

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#12. I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.

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#13. I didn't go there looking for you. I went looking for me." My voice is soft, low, and shaky. "But now, here you are, and somehow, in finding you, I think I've found myself.

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#14. I'm merely reminding you to embrace who you are and surround yourself with people who do the same.

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#15. If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.

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#16. I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

Mac Miller

#17. I'm going to show you something that will change your whole life.

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#18. Everyone's got something. Some people are just better actors than others.

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#19. I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.

Dave Madden

#20. There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#21. Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You've made mistakes all your life and you're going to keep making them.

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#22. Feeling all the pain of letting them go. And knowing I did the right thing.

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#23. Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

Arina Tanemura

#24. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy.

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#25. If others benefit through you getting what you desire most,
it will have a positive impact on the world and only then will every atom of your being work with the universe to help it come into fruition.

Malti Bhojwani

#26. Alliteration is alarmingly addictive.

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#27. The trick is to recognize your mistakes, take what you need from them, and move on -Sue

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#28. Yesterday, when I took the stage for the sixth time, I read a poem about unreliable friends, people you love and feel bonded to but can never truly trust. It was about feeling alone and vulnerable, and never being able to fully let your guard down.

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#29. And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I'll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.

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#30. Sam: Do you always say exactly what you're thinking?
AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. I mean, I'm never rude or hurtful about it, but I don't see any reason to be fake. That's a lot of work

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#31. How many thought does the brain automatically deliver in a single day?"
"Seventy thousand"
"That's right. Do you act on seventy thousand thoughts a day?"
I shake my head.
"Of course you don't. This thought was one in seventy thousand. It's not special

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#32. And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.

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#33. I have a tendency to overthink things, especially when it comes to my friends, and I don't know ... I take things too personally. I mean, it isn't always them . Sometimes it's me. I just don't always know when it's them and when it's me, you know?

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#34. Technology is a trap

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#35. What you see, it isn't me

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#36. You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.

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#37. You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

Robin Hobb

#38. I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

Elizabeth Banks