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«If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.»
«Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.»
«If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.»
«The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.»
«From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.»
«There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.»
«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.»