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Astrid Lindgren
“Imagine,”
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

Kris Waldherr
“First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....”
Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

Jill Alexander Essbaum
“I’m neither plain nor pretty. I’m irrevocably average.”
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau

Tove Jansson
“Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night?" Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. "Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob." He blew his nose and couldn't go on.”
Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

Stella Adler
“The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.”
Stella Adler, The Art of Acting

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