“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
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“Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.”
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“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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