#it's not like cher and josh grew up together

[unamused-kookaburra]

HOTD is messing with my head. I saw someone bashing another piece of media because of the related by marriage/step-sibling relationship and I scoffed at it saying 'they're not even blood related who cares'

[detectivestucks]

Brat Taming

18+ Content, Minors do NOT interact

Pairing: Kakashi x F!Reader

Summery: Modern AU Kakashi is your arrogant and creepy step brother. One night while your parents are out of town you come home from a night of partying only to find Kakashi in your room, ready to make you pay for all your cheeky comments

Warnings: NSFW, NONCON, Stepcest, Toxic Kakashi, brat taming, oral, fingering, unprotected penetration, choking, anal play, facial, hair pulling, harsh spanking, under age drinking.

Word Count: 4.6k

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When your mom married Sakumo three years ago you thought your Clueless fantasy was about to come true. Your new step brother, Kakashi, was stupid hot. He was blessed with a gorgeous angular face, deep brown eyes, thick silky silver hair and a mouthwatering scar over his left eye. He loved to walk around the house either in fitted muscle tanks or shirtless with only loose gray sweats, showing off his chiseled frame. On top of that he had big masculine hands with perfectly manicured fingers that you would daydream about grazing your most sensitive areas. He was going to be your Josh and you were Cher waiting for him to fall madly in love with you. 

Only it turned out he was a complete and total ass.

Soon after your parents got together he had been accepted to Harvard and loved to lord over everyone what a genius he is. You quickly grew a distaste for the prick and got cheeky whenever he felt the need to remind you of his superiority. 

Currently you are a freshman in college starting your second semester at UMass. You chose to live at home to keep your mom company since you didn’t like the idea of living in a tiny dorm room with some random roommate you didn’t know. Kakashi on the other hand, just got kicked out of the dorms last semester and was finishing his Junior year at home with you and your parents. 

It turns out you were not the only person he liked to mouth off to. He got into several arguments with many of his dorm mates and the RA. Eventually he was banned from on-campus housing and now you were left to suffer through daily interactions with the world's most annoying step brother. 

Always his insufferable self, recently Kakashi has been extra creepy. He seems to have forgotten what a shirt is and rarely had one on his back. Sometimes you thought you caught him palming himself out of the corner of your eye and you would catch him staring at you when you get ready to go out with your friends. Most annoyingly, sometimes he’d hang out in your bedroom when you were trying to get ready for bed.

“Can I help you?”

“Just making sure you’re not so brain dead that you forgot how to put on pants. I know it can be hard for some people.”

“Oh is that so? Cause I was just making sure you didn't forget how to shut your mouth. I know it can be hard for some people.”

“Careful, now. You should really mind who you’re speaking to that way.”

“Sorry, I don’t take kindly to creeps who think I’m too stupid to put on pants. Is that why they kicked you out? Cause you were trying to show girls how to put on their pants?”

Kakashi furiously charged up to you and got right in your face. You were scared but you weren’t gonna show him that. Instead you glare at him. 

“Watch it kid or you’ll find yourself in a world of trouble.”

“Threats don’t work with me big bro. Try again some other time.”

Angry, he left the room. Closing his door with a snap. 

It had been like this for weeks. His unwelcome presence always looming around. You hated the way he looked at you. It was like he was hunting for a reason to tear you down. Whether it was your degree, your ‘public university’ education, or your slutty outfit choices. The guy needed a life. Most of the time you’d quip back but sometimes you just didn’t have the energy and instead roll your eyes. Tonight was one of those nights. Sakumo and your mom were out of town on a romantic getaway so you were going out while Kakashi tried to lord over you as the ‘man of the house.’

“Ah you going to see your boy toy? You know you’re never going to get a respectable man dressed like that.”

“I’m not going to see any boy toy, I’m going out with my friends.”

You see him give a smug smirk at your answer

“Besides, it’s not up to you if I’m looking for a respectable man or not. Maybe I’m not looking for one at all.”

“So just looking to be a little whore. I see how it is.”

You glare at him before rolling your eyes.

“I’m out. See you later, loser.”

You catch Kakashi’s face paint in fury as you leave. He hated how you constantly try to undermine him. He hated that you were such a brat. And he truly hated how no one ever put you in your place. 

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You loudly came home at 2am from partying with your friends. You were a little inebriated and stumbled to the kitchen to get water before heading upstairs to bed. You make your way up the stairs, tripping over your high heels. You get to your bedroom and when you turn on the light you see Kakashi already laying in your bed. 

“Seriously, what’s your problem?”

“I have no problem. I’m not the one getting home at 2 am after a night of underage drinking.”

You were hit with a wave of sobriety at his words. If he told your mom, you’d be screwed. Seeing your expression, he knew he had you cornered. Kakashi stands up and walks past you as if he’s leaving the room, putting himself between you and the door before changing his mind and closing it.

“Remember when I said you should watch it?” 

He turns to you, taking a step forward. You begin to stumble backwards towards the bed.

“You’re such a filthy brat” he spits.

You continue to stumble backwards, your heels slipping off your feet. 

“And there's nothing I love more than putting a brat in her place.”

Your eyes widen in fear as you see a dark smile stretch across his face. Calves hitting the bed, you fall down to the floor and Kakashi weaves his strong hands into your hair, pulling it back so you’re forced to stare up at him. Your mind hazy, you begin to realize exactly how he imagines putting you in your place and it causes you to tremble. 

He tugs down his sweatpants and pulls out his length. Its weight slaps you in the face with a heavy thud. You flinch in his grasp but his fingers tighten in your locks as he begins beating you with his manhood.

“Drunk little girls like you don’t deserve to brush their teeth with a toothbrush. They only get to brush their teeth with cock. Now open that brat mouth for me.”

“No!”

Kakashi spits on your face. “I said open”

In your outrage you open your mouth about to hurl an insult at him when he shoved himself between your lips and pushed your head all the way down to his stomach. You were gagging and retching around him. You pushed against his thighs with all your might but your pathetic drunken arms were no match for his robust muscular physique. 

“That’s it. Choke on my cock you twerp.”

He groaned as he feels you constrict around his tip in an attempt to swallow air. Your eyes were tearing up from oxygen deprivation and your entire body was rigid in your struggle. He roughly pulls you up and down on him, pummeling your throat with a manhood much too large for your mouth. You feel your jaw lock as you open wide, tears falling freely from your eyes. 

He pulls you off of him and slaps your drool and tear drenched face. 

“Look at you. Just a little slut swallowing me so good. It seems college has at least taught you how to swallow dick so I guess your tuition has been put to good use.”

Your chest is heaving as you gulp down fresh air, seeing two of him with inebriated eyes while the pain of your hair being pulled registers in your hazy mind. 

“Again.”

He plummets into your mouth once more, fucking your face while you choke. Drool dribbling past your lips and down the front of your dress. He threatens you,

“Don’t even think about running to mommy. I’ll tell her all about how drunk you were and how you came onto me and you’ll be grounded and not allowed to see your little friends for the rest of the semester. Got it?”

He shakes your head with the hand grasping your hair. You whine ‘yes’ with a full mouth as you cry out from the pain. He retreats from your throat and you cough while he shoves you face down on your bed. He bends you over its edge, ass facing him. You desperately bring your hands to the back of your head, trying to pull off the hand tangled in your hair. He pushes you down into the mattress with force majeure and you sob from your dishonorable predicament.

“Resisting is futile little sis. This is what happens to brats who don’t know their place.”

He pulls up the skirt of your mini dress and yanks down your strappy thong. 

“Who are you wearing this slutty underwear for, huh? I thought you weren’t going to meet up with any boys” you hear a hum of amusement from his chest. “Did you wear this for me?”

“Fuck off” you choke.

“Ah, you see? You shouldn’t have said that.” He spreads your legs and brings his hand up to forcefully slap your sex. You yelp and flinch. 

“This is the very attitude I was talking about sis.” He slaps you again, this time harder.

“Someone’s gotta beat this out of you.” He slaps you again, this time with significant strength. 

Kakashi catches some arousal dripping out of you when he removes his hand from your folds. He lets out a chuckle. “Seems like you’re enjoying this.” 

His words burn you with embarrassment and reignite your struggles till he plunges his fingers inside of your gummy cunt. You gasp at his uninvited intrusion. He feels around, stroking in and out, coating his knuckles in your secretions. As he toys with you he hits your sweet spot and an involuntary groan spills past your lips. 

“Oh, you like that, huh?”

You shake your head ‘no’ but when he does it again you moan once more, walls tightening around his fingers. He pulls out of you and spanks your cheek causing you to cry. 

“You’re not supposed to enjoy it brat.” he snarls before sinking his fingers into you again. 

He maliciously milks your sweet spot, driving you to a crazed state. You struggle to refrain from moaning but if you fail and a cry slips past your lips be brings a heavy palm down on your rear with so much force that the red handprints quickly turn purple. He repeats the torturous process till you are thrashing in his grasp and he has to pull you up by your hair to pin you down on the bed with his body weight on top of you to stop your struggle. 

Kneeling on either side of your arms, weight on your chest, he can see the mascara run down your cheeks. He swells with pride seeing you made messy by his hands. He shoves himself back into your mouth. You kick and try to push him off of you but he has no patience for your misbehavior. He reaches behind himself and gives you a slap between your legs. 

Your resulting squeal vibrates along his shaft. A pleasured growl rumbles from his chest so he continues to reach around, beating against your cunt while he thrusts in and out of your mouth. 

Your fingers begin to dig into him, scratching up his legs as you desperately try to get him off of you. He rips himself from your mouth and grabs you by your wrists.

“You wanna play rough, sis? I can give you rough.”

He gives you a shit eating grin as he leans all his weight on your restrained wrists and uses his knees to spread your legs. You feel the heat of his length rub against your folds as he gets his body into position. You quickly realize you’re losing the war and he’s going to get exactly wants. You squirm and wiggle your hips trying to stop him from sinking in. In his frustration he pulls down the top of your dress and slaps your tit. You feel the sting as your arm goes to his chest but he quickly recaptures your wrist.

“Stop moving” he warns

“Fuck you loser!”

“Gladly”

The most sickening smile splits his face as he sinks himself deep into you. A loud groan is pushed out of you as he shoves your organs out of the way with his fat cock. 

“Wanna say that again?” he croons in your ear

You look up at him with doe eyes, not ready for how he is about to tear you apart and shake your head ‘no’

“That’s what I thought.”

He glides into you slow and deep, making sure you feel every vein as he violates you. He loves watching your eyes go wide every time he bottoms out, pausing to feel the full effect of him stuffing you. You whimper and groan stretched more than you thought possible, helplessly trapped. There was no running, no way out. You were alone and defenseless.

Nevertheless you struggle under his weight, trying to free your wrists. Annoyed by your incessant struggle he decides to bring them above your head and pin them together, freeing up his hand so he can grab your nipple, squeezing it between his index finger and thumb. You squirm as he applies pressure. 

“Keep resisting and see what happens” Kakashi threatens as he pulls up with your bud trapped in his pinch. You draw breath through your teeth, the pain consuming your thoughts. Not even registering that he hasn’t stopped rutting into you the entire time. 

“Gahh!”

“Understand?” You’re so focused on the pain in your nipple that all you do is whimper. “Answer me!” he barks with a twist of your nub

“Nggh! Fine!” Your eyes are screwed shut. You begin to open them when he releases your captive bud but you flinch when he slaps your tit again. 

He grabs your face, smushing your cheeks together. 

“See, I knew you could follow directions. That’s a smart girl”

You loathed him but you couldn’t help how your walls were restricting around him. His size massaged your sweet slit in such a gratifying way. Your body completely betrayed your mind. It seemed completely out of touch with the gravity of your situation. He left you breathless, your lungs forgetting how to breathe, as he pummeled into you. 

Anger on your mind, you watched him as he watched you. You pan over his stinging brown eyes, his angular features, and the mole that sits just below his drool inducing lips. He was hot and you hate him all the more for it. 

Disgust written on your mug as he studies you, anxiously waiting to watch you break. He picks up a little speed and you groan into it. You immediately regret the noise when you see a smug simper stretch on his face. You try to give him a glare but he hits you with a particularly sharp thrust and your face betrays you as your mouth falls open and your profile softens from pleasure. 

“I knew you were just a weak little slut.”

“Shut up.”

He slaps your face. “Wanna try that again?”

You attempt another glare at him but he thrusts up into you in a way that hits a sweet spot and you mewl for him.

“Ah! Thank you, ah.”

His chuckle makes your stomach twist as you realize what you said. 

“Ahh, she has manners.” condescension thick. You truly hate him.

He continues to thrust against the same spot making you pant under him. You cry pleasured screams from the sensation. He kept going, enjoying the view of you coming undone against your will. 

The sounds of your submission were getting a touch too loud. Trusting that you would behave, he strips off his shirt to reveal his well defined muscular frame beneath. He balls up the hem and shoves it in your mouth before returning a hand to your wrists, obediently still crossed together, waiting to be restrained again. 

You hated how good it felt. The recognition of him pleasuring you made you feel slimy on the inside, and desperate to get him off of you. He was your brother. Your arrogant asshole of a brother, yet he had you panting and crying beneath him. He was such a sick fuck. 

He gains speed. Beginning to bang the headboard into the wall. The sound thundering through the quiet night. Good thing the parents weren’t home to hear you cause he was beginning to lose his composure. He had been so careful to conceal his hunger but it was evident in his eyes that he was wild with lust. You sing into your gag, eyes beginning to roll back into your head. His unrelenting pace, his careful aim, and his grunts combined into a euphoric melody that had you spasming around him, calling his name through the gag. Your body stiffened as the orgasm tore through you.

“That’s a good brat. See how good it is to behave?”

You dumbly nod your head as the aftershocks course through your system. He strokes slowly allowing you to fall limp before he barks at you again.

“Get on your knees” he says, lifting his weight off of your wrists. He helps you flip over on your stomach and his hands pull up your hips so they are aligned with his pelvis. You attempt to support your weight on your arms when he pushes your head back down, roughly shoving you into the mattress. 

“Brats get fucked like whores. Lift your slut face off the sheets and there will be consequences..”

You cry out as you obey his command. He pushes in just the tip and you anxiously close around it before he pulls out again. You hate the way you whined from how empty you felt. He pushes in just a little deeper before retreating again, toying with you to prove his point. This time when he begins to line up his tip you rock your hips all the way back so he ‘s buried inside of you. You hadn’t anticipated how the angle would overstimulate you and you gasp about to pull away but his hands grab your hips and hold you steady. He begins to chuckle. 

“Such a twerp, complaining about something you did to yourself.”

You loathe yourself for how you sought him out just now. He was assaulting you and you were practically begging him to fill you. It was all a game to him and your pathetic response was exhilarating.

He  brings his hand down on your backside that was already bruised and purple from his earlier battery. You feel tears prick at the corners of your eyes, cries muffled by his shirt. He strikes you more. Every time you try to tuck your tail under to avoid the abuse he pushes down on your back. You were not running away from him. You were a mouse trapped in the maze. 

He begins to ram into you, the plush tissue of your behind rippling violently as his hips collide into you on repeat. Your fingers spread and grip onto your duvet for dear life as he bullies himself deep into you. 

You can’t handle the feeling. He’s too big! You lift yourself up trying to change the angle, trying to find relief, when his formidable hands sweep across your neck and choke you. He pulls you up just enough that your arms couldn’t reach the mattress and your entire body weight was supported by his grip on your neck. His hands sink into your trachea with every plummet into your slick cavern. 

You claw at his hands on your neck, trying to get under his fingers to lift the pressure from your windpipe so you could breathe. Your attempts were futile. Eventually your hands grip his wrists, giving up on being allowed to breathe.

“I told you not to lift your face. Here I thought you were learning your lesson.”

Seeing the gag start to fall out of your mouth, he lifts one hand off your neck to stuff it deeper before returning it to your throat. You spasm around him, tears spilling from your eyes, back involuntarily bowing, allowing him to push against your diaphragm. He knocked the wind out of you without allowing you to catch your breath. His cruelty leaves you putty in his hands, pliable and bending to his will. Gushing around his girth, broken and winded.

“Now you’re starting to get the picture.”

Pleasured cries permeate through the fabric in your mouth. He doesn’t plan on letting up any time soon either. He’s enjoying the view too much. Your glutes shake with each thrust while they’re spread wide open. He hones in on your puckered rear when he remembers what he found when he was snooping in your room. 

He pulls out of you and grabs you around the waist, pulling your back into his cut chest, possessively holding you so you can’t run away as he drags you across the bed where he can reach into your nightstand drawer. He pulls out your tiny black plug with a blue gem on the end. You look over and through your dazed state you realize what he grabbed and you start to protest. 

“No, no, no, no” you say through the cloth.

He shoves you down pulling your hips up once more and shoving your face back into the bed so your cries cannot be heard. His spit falls onto your rear, pooling over your sphincter where he pushes down on the tapered tip of your plug. You begin to wail.

“What’s all the fuss for? This is your’s, is it not? I thought whores liked having their holes stuffed.”

You tried pulling away but his grip on your hips tightened and he slammed back into you enjoying the friction of where the plug encroached on the space in your tunnel. 

You looked so beautiful with the blue gem protruding out of your dirty hole. He was definitely going to do this to you again. He was going to make you beg him for it once he was done putting you in your place. 

The thought of you coming to his room, plug in place, to get another taste of his fat cock made him ravenous. He rails into you using every drop of athleticism he has. You start to scream and go dizzy. His heavy balls slap into the bundle of nerves swelling between your legs. Eventually they swing into you with so much voracity that you twitch with each stroke of his hips. Your face began to melt into the mattress from his pounding and you are certain he will break your neck from the force. 

He flips you over, pushing your hips up so your knees are by your face, ass high in the air. He stands on the bed and sinks himself between your lips, thrusting down into you with all his might. Abdominals flexing with each thrust, passionate grunts bending you in half. The impossible positions shredding what was left of your once tight pussy. 

“Take it little slut.”

He can see the helpless tears leak from your eyes as you feel every inch of him being swallowed up by your soiled cunt. 

“Fuck Kakashi” you moan between labored breaths. 

He smirks. He had you just where he wanted you. He only needed to push you over the edge. He reached down and begins whirling circles around your clit. You shriek and knock your knees together. But his silky chuckle cuts your mind like a knife. The fucker was laughing at you. You squirm but your current position was so compromising you couldn’t move. He plays with you rubbing more vigorously. You scream and holler under him unfamiliar with such intensity as this.

“Ple-Pl-ease” you dumbly whine. 

“Please what, sis? You’ll need to speak up”

“M-may I c-cu-mm?”

He pounds into you without relenting. “Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that”

He was such an abhorrent ass but the heat in your lower belly was boiling over and you needed to release. You try to phish your voice from the back of your mind but it’s swimming and the way he drags along your ridges while swirling your sensitive bud has you desperate for him. 

“Gah! Please l’me cum!”

The glint in his eyes sickened you but you didn’t have the strength to care as he readjusted his stroke to pound into the sweet spot he found earlier. Your entire body convulsed under him as you had the most intense orgasm of your life. 

Kakashi, pleased with his successful session of taming you, feels his own gratification on its precipice.

He pulls out of your quaking cunt with a slap to your sensitive clit causing your hips to fall to the mattress with a cry. Your destroyed state was erotic. Helplessly shaking, sweat all over your body, dress bunched around your stomach, hair knotted and messy, ass still plugged and tears drenching your face. His fingers seek out your hair to hold you still while he paints your face white. 

“That’s a good girl. Take your reward.”

You tremble in his arms. When his seed can no longer shoot from his tip and simply oozes from his slit Kakashi presses himself against your lips. You part them slightly to give it a kiss leaving him to shutter from sensitivity. 

“Yes, very good”

He brushes your cheek with his thumb pad smearing his cum along your skin. You look up at him pathetically and he smiles down on you. 

“There we go sweet sister. That’s much better.”

You make a little whine that he finds so precious. 

“Go clean yourself up little one.” he pets your head before pulling on his sweatpants and tucking himself away. “I’m going to bed. Feel free to join me if you want.” 

He grabs his shirt, throwing it over his shoulder before lacing both hands together behind his head as he walks away. 

Your lip quivers as you entertain the idea, realizing you were hopelessly hooked.

Shakily you get up, pulling your dress off the rest of the way and walk naked to the bathroom. Kakashi glances over from his bed as he sees you through the crack in his bedroom door before exhaustion lulls him to sleep. 

He wakes up a half hour later to your weak-willed body slipping into his bed completely naked. He opens his arms, letting you settle into his chest before he closes them around you. You exhale with a small sigh and in your mind you know you would be yearning for the next time the two of you are home alone so he could tie you up and brutally defile you again. 

He plants a kiss on your forehead, mind flooded with gratification at finally breaking you down into such a needy state. 

He reaches down between your cheeks to see you kept your plug in tact. He gives it a small tug and you look up at him with a whine. He nuzzled your nose and whispers to you in his silky smooth voice before gently pressing a kiss on your lips. 

“Such a filthy brat”

Masterlist

[thefirstcourtesan]

List of Your Ten Childhood Ships

Thanks @lizzybeth1986 for tagging me. So I’m counting childhood as “before high school” so up until spring of 1997. I am an 80s baby, who was a 90s child (and a 90s/00s teenager, but that is a list for another time).

1. Zack and Kelly, Saved by the Bell

Saved by the Bell was one of my favourite shows in my tweens and I had a big crush on Zack Morris (yeah, he was blonde but the cocky, scheming type has always had appeal). I loved Zack and Kelly together and consistently rooted for them.

2. Jake and Tiffany, California Dreams

I watched a lot of Teen NBC when I was young 😂 and of course I liked the leather-jacket, motor-cycle wearing musician and his cute blonde surfer girlfriend. I feel like Jake Summers had a major impact on my taste for the rest of my life.

3. Lir and Amalthea, The Last Unicorn

This movie broke my heart at the age of 4. I always joke that this is what made me a villain lover, because I hated how Lir being a hero meant he had to give up Amalthea and let her save the unicorns 😂.

4. Sony and Brenda, General Hospital

I grew up watching soap operas, mainly General Hospital because it is the one my grandmother and then my mom watched. While Sonny and Brenda definitely influenced my teen ships years, they also influenced the pre-teen years and ai couldn’t resist this combo. “Why settle for a spark when you can set the world on fire?”

5. Anne and Gilbert, Anne of Green Gables

I am a Canadian girl, I grew up on the Anne books and I fell in love early with the spirited Anne Shirley and the incredibly patient (but not pushy) Gilbert Blythe. I love their love story.

6. Elizabeth Wakefield and Todd Wilkins, Sweet Falley High

This one did not hold up 😂 and the series itself did a good job of murdering this ship, but when I was a kid I loved them together and the one where he comes back after moving was my favorite. I remember I even specially ordered it because our local book story didn’t have it and neither did the library.

7. Cher and Josh, Clueless

I love Clueless, it is one of my all-time favorite movies and definitely influenced pre-teen Misha. Is the step-sibling romance a little weird? Yep. But at the time, all I cared about was the chemistry and that Paul Rudd was cute.

8. Westley and Buttercup, The Princess Bride

Again, I was an 80s child. I grew up on this movie. This is what true love was. And ok, the fact that the far:boy went off and became a bad-ass pirate was pretty cool.

9. Xena and Ares, Xena Warrior Princess

This is one that also falls into “high school” ships, but I started watching the show in elementary school, so it counts. I fell in love with Ares the first time he appeared, when he was very obviously the bad guy.

10. Sabrina and Harvey, Sabrina the Teenage Witch

I just thought these two were so sweet together (see I have layers, I like sweet ships too) and I liked that the obstacle in their relationship was never their feelings, it was everything else and Harvey was just such a perfect first boyfriend.

Honorable Mention: Blossom and Vinnie, Blossom

Tagging @jerzwriter @the-unconquered-queen @ladysophiebeckett @boneandfur @walkerismychoice @liliplayschoices @brightpinkpeppercorn @shynmighty @countessogilvy @hellomynameisdevi

[zalrb]

the summer i turned pretty 1x05 review -- if i can't have conrad there's always jere

Belly, I'm sure they gave you a schedule. You knew there was going to be dancing.

Also details like Belly is seemingly fine with Nicole stepping in to be her dance partner during rehearsal but she should feel if not guilty then at least awkward around her so she almost kissed Conrad.

This is why Taylor says that you're self-absorbed and don't care about anyone else, Belly.

Also, it's wild to me that your best friend will have that conversation with you and then you proceed to make a woman's funeral about yourself. Where is the self-reflection?

Like you were all "omg what am I going to text Conrad, what emoji should I put with my text" and you're just ... dancing with Nicole?

And anons want to ask why we hate Belly when we've liked messy teens before? SERENA HAD MORE SHAME. SERENA. And Serena had moments, man, where it was just like, I don't know why you're mad at Blair, you slept with her boyfriend.

"Does Jere take anything seriously?" "Yeah, food and flirting" SOUND JEALOUS, STEVEN

Every time Jeremiah is supposed to be extroverted and fun-loving and charming, I'm just like

Conrad, you MUST know that Nicole would be where Belly is since she was a deb and you took her to the deb ball last summer.

I also like the blatant advertisement for Alexa.

You two are terrible. NICOLE IS RIGHT THERE.

Then Conrad texting Belly and Belly grinning with Nicole right there?

"You think I was just a petty fuck." "You're hotter than he is." She's not wrong. All of these pretty Black women/women of colour (and girls) and these basic to ugly white men (and boys) on TV. It needs to be stopped.

"If Shayla called you right now" -- jealous boyfriends.

Nicole is the one who's being played hot and cold.

Jeremiah telling her to bring him to a Frank Ocean concert knowing that he likes Belly is not fair to her, like in terms of the drama that would cause with Conrad and Belly, I don't care because they're both being terrible but Nicole does not deserve this.

"I mean we grew up together so I always thought of her as this little kid but now ... she's not." a) that sounds way creepier than intended like some Jacob and Renesmee shit b) they honestly should've done more to indicate that he's really seeing her now. Like I obviously know he's supposed to because of all the dialogue around how she's pretty now from everyone else and "omg Belly you look SO hot" in a simple, cutesy floral tank top but I mean if it's going to be Annie and Jeff then be Annie and Jeff.

Of course Annie and Jeff actually had tension

At least be Josh and Cher

COME ON, MAN.

"I'm bummed but I'll be fine" because Belly is terrible.

Cam does not deserve the lyrics to this song he was nothing but NICE to Belly if anything this song should be playing with Cam walking away.

I just find it super lazy to rely on portraying the munchies to show how high they're supposed to be.

Is Jere supposed to be Puck or something?

Lol when your mom puts you in the friendzone with your crush.

"Well I'm sure you got a perfect score" *laughs* oh we're doing racism in this episode. And it was actually done well. Just not when it's antiblackness which isn't surprising

"How come no one ever wants to play with me?" she booped you on the nose bro.

ok finally. something that is ACTUALLY hot and cold. "i'm not waiting for you anymore" does he know she'd been waiting for him?

Also not waiting for him shouldn't then mean making out with Jere.

"What happened to the boy I loved since I was ten" well Belly either he always knew you liked him and ignored it because he didn't see you the same way even when he was idk nicer I guess or he was clueless that you liked him but either way you never had his affection before this.

Also I like how in season 2 Jere was all I USED TO LOOK UP TO YOU EVERYONE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN ME IN EVERYTHING and there is literally nothing to suggest any of those dynamics this season.

I can't fuck things up with Belly and treat her like shit but you know who I can do that to? Nicole.

Well if I can't get attention from one brother then I can from the other. "Susannah said when I was born she knew I was destined for one of her boys. I always thought it'd be Conrad" but Jere's the one in front of me so. You didn't think about him at ALL Belly.

It's funny actually watching the pool kiss because it's actually quite short and tame.

[shemakesmusic-uk]

HARD FEELINGS, the new collaborative project of Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and Amy Douglas, have signed to Domino and unveiled their debut outing 'Holding On Too Long' which is teamed with a Katie Paul-directed video. Douglas says of their debut single, "'Holding On Too Long' is the common denominator of the entire musical union of Amy and Joe. In this "opera of sad bangers" here is its key aria, its "Un Bel Di" from Madame Butterfly or the "Mad Scene" from Lucia Di Lammermour, the unforgettable moment of the story wherein our heroine stands up defiantly and has her moment to wail, scream and cry her pain and fury centre stage to the world." HARD FEELINGS was formed after Goddard reached out to Douglas on Twitter after hearing her work, and simply asking: "Amy, can we make a thing?" [via Line Of Best Fit]

After recently announcing her debut album Flaw Flower is due June 25 via Illegal Data, London-based musician Harriet Zoe Pittard, aka Zoee, is sharing another slice of her multi-faceted art-pop sounds with her new single'Host'. Speaking about the track, Zoee said "‘Host’ describes the disconcertingly replicant-like nature of a once starry-eyed lover who becomes increasingly detached. The video is inspired by The Twilight Zone and was shot on location in a forest close to where I grew up in Berkshire."

Nashville-based songwriter Madi Diaz releases 'Nervous,' a new single about recognizing unhealthy coping mechanisms. The song’s frank lyrics are bellied by infectious guitar and Diaz’s buoyant voice: “I know why I lie to myself // I’m not really looking to get healthy // I have so many perspectives I’m losing perspective I make me nervous.” The accompanying video was shot in Nashville and directed by Jordan Bellamy. It was inspired by and includes an homage to the final scene of Andrei Tarkovsky's film The Stalker, a film that has always resonated with Diaz through its otherworldly nature, as well as its thoughtful and often anxiety inducing pace. “You know when you hold a mirror up to a mirror and you get an infinite amount of reflections from every angle? That’s what ‘Nervous’ is about,” says Diaz. “It’s when you’re in a loop of looking at yourself from every vantage point until you’re caught up in your own tangled web of bullshit. It’s about catching yourself acting out your crazy and you’re finally self-aware enough to see it, but you’re still out of your body enough and curious enough to watch yourself do it.”

Buzzy duo XVOTO have announced that their eagerly-awaited debut EP will be arriving on June 4 on One Two Many. Sharing new single ‘Friends’ alongside the news, Jazz Alonso explains that the track is rooted in “the people who have irreversibly changed you and then having to pretend you’re unphased by them when you’re in the same room. Meanwhile you’re trying to work out what your new boundaries are: can you talk about the past? Can you cry together? Can you show how much pain you’re in around them? ‘If you fish me, I’ll play dead’ means: if you make a move, I’ll pretend I’m dead inside and don’t want you back.” Accompanied by a new vid, Jazz adds, “For this video I always imagined an aquarium because of the fish lyrics and because I think looking at fish in a tank is a really nice symbol of looking back at a relationship: you’ll always have your take on it and feel you have control over that narrative cause it’s a memory, but the reality is that truth is fluid and moves. You’re not looking at an image, you’re looking at something that’s alive. Then the scenes of us getting tattooed on our backs are symbols for something beautiful that scars you - you might move on from something but it’ll still inform the way you move forward. In the video there’s some cheating, some reminiscing, some beauty and some pain.” [via DIY]

Ashe has released new cut 'Me Without You' as the latest singe off her debut album Ashlyn. It comes teamed with a Jason Lester-directed video. Ashe says of the new single, "'Me Without You' is my follow up to 'Moral Of The Story'. It's saying you thought that I needed you to be who I am. There is my past relationship...I had multiple people... You know, assumed that I needed them in my life to feel confident or to be me and "Me Without You" is just this record that's like, ‘Ooh, I am so good on my own'." [via Line Of Best Fit]

Mia Nicolai is a true internationalist. Born in Amsterdam to a Russian mother, she learned from a young age to move between languages and cultures, accepting them as equal. This all fuels her future-pop vision, a trans-genre approach laden with colour, one that picks from multiple sources. New single 'People Pleaser' is a surging, coherent, ultra-potent offering, a song that dwells on identity, and the processes by which it is defined. "This song is about the journey towards finding yourself," she explains. "It can be very difficult to be true to your inner values when all you do is please the people around you instead of your inner needs. I’ve always come across as a strong-minded person. But in reality, I’m capable of helping everyone BUT myself. At some point I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin that I couldn’t even breathe properly..." We're able to share the dazzling new video, directed by Isabelle Griffioen and produced by That’s What She Set. A surreal but completely engaging experience, it embodies everything Mia Nicolai sets out to do - put people on the back foot, and alert them to her presence. [via Clash]

Singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams has shared her poignant new single 'Mess It Up' and its accompanying video via Interscope Records. Directed by Matty Peacock, the video for 'Mess It Up' finds Abrams attempting to bake a cake and repeatedly dropping the gorgeously frosted final product on the ground. That bittersweet back-and-forth between determination and disappointment is a perfect match for Abrams’s incisive lyrics, which simultaneously convey a deep longing for forgiveness and an unshakable sense of frustration. Produced by and co-written with her frequent collaborator Blake Slatkin, the track’s stark guitar work and driving rhythms slowly take on a powerful momentum, ultimately building to a sweetly triumphant climax. [via Vacancy]

Vocalist and guitarist Maya Delilah shares the visuals for her new single 'Need A Word With Cupid'. The track unravels into a punchy number that gives you a hit of both dopamine and female empowerment. Written about realising your worth after a relationship breakup, Maya’s lyrics are little witty statements that we can all use to remind ourselves who the hell we are. “Last Tuesday morning I just realised you’re shit” – it’s the truth. The video sees her waiting in cupid’s reception ready to get her money back because, damn, this boy was not worth her energy. At. All. 'Need A Word With Cupid' is a brilliant narrative that’s not only relatable but also incredibly good. Brimming with smooth guitar tones and a catchy beat, this is a single that leaves you wanting so much more. A self-love anthem for the modern woman, 'Need A Word With Cupid' is an indie-pop bop. Maya says: “'Need A Word With Cupid' was written after my breakup when I felt a sudden hit of empowerment after the realisation that my ex was not worth another tear over. It’s an energetic and uplifting song with soul influences and of course a guitar solo to end.“ [via LOCK]

With her debut EP Digital Meadow arriving on May 28, Dora Jar is sharing the video for her single ‘Multiply’. “I am my truest form when I am changing shape, morphing sounds, and shifting my point of view,” she says of the forthcoming EP. “This project is an exploration of my impulse to shape-shift. That’s my ambition.” [via DIY]

Telenova's new-arriving single 'Tranquilize' makes it two-from-two for the band, deeper solidifying their rich blend of sounds while showing how it can move into further areas, taking on new energies - or emphasising other energies - as more songs come to light. 'Tranquillize', for example, has a heavier weighting on that live instrumentation, giving the song this more alt-pop-meets-R&B spin when combined with Angeline's brilliant-as-ever vocals. As she explains, the single was the first for Telenova, written on the day they began working with one another. "I was actually flicking through a thesaurus and the word ‘Tranquilize’ jumped out at me, it just rang so nicely on the tongue and was so inherently visceral," she says. "I was humming gibberish over the hypnotic Rhodes chords that Josh had laid down, and we heard what sounded like ‘Poseidon’s on the water’ - it was the first time in a writing session with Ed and Josh, and the first time I’d been in a writing session where a poetic, literary lyric idea like that wasn’t shunned and coined as ‘unrelatable’.  It resonated. We followed the thread, playing into Siren mythology as a metaphor for falling in love - the power of attraction to transfix and tranquillize you." The single also arrives with an official video clip, directed by Angeline - solidifying her multi-talented craft. "I wanted to capture the world of the song in a Lynchian-inspired dreamscape - starry-eyed and a little unhinged - but like, David Lynch meets Gucci," she says. [via Pilerats]

International superstar P!nk has more than two decades of experience topping the global pop charts, and she is here to continue her reign with the new single 'All I Know So Far'. 'All I Know So Far' was produced by pop mastermind Greg Kurstin and co-written with the songwriting duo Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. The single comes off of her upcoming album All I Know So Far: Setlist, due out on RCA Records on May 21. The accompanying video for 'All I Know So Far' tells Pink’s life story with help from Cher, Judith Light, and Carey Hart. The visuals, directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers, also features an appearance from her daughter Willow. The new album will feature live recordings from her 2019 'Beautiful Trauma World Tour' along with a recording of her highly-buzzed MTV Video Vanguard Award acceptance speech. P!nk’s daughter Willow will also make an appearance on the album with the song 'Cover Me in Sunshine', which the singer previously shared back in February. [via Consequence]

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Movie Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Disclaimer: I am posting this review a few days after the movie first aired in the U.K. and while this isn’t a movie warranting a spoiler review I will be talking about the movie in general. So if you do not want to ruin seeing the movie beforehand don’t read on.

General Reaction:

Wow, ten years later and ABBA combined with these actors still make for a great movie. While this movie isn’t as good as the first movie, I was not really expecting it to be, the first movie was somewhat of a special movie and to try and monopolize on that was a risk but fortunately this movie did not diminish what occurred in the first.

Now I said it wasn’t as good as the first and my above comment is very much the case but the reasons for that are in talent both in front of and behind the camera either not returning or not committing. For instance Phyllida Lloyd directed the first movie but didn’t return for the sequel, I feel that is because her two hit movies starred Meryl Streep and she herself did not return to the centre stage here. Both presences I felt were missed not only because the energy seemed slightly somber in this movie due to the apparent death of Donna Sheridan but also in both the choreography and delivery of the big dance numbers.

Also moving filming locations from actual Greece to Croatia was 1) Noticeable for someone who watches Game of Thrones and 2) Unnecessary unless something was wrong from a production standpoint with using the same location from the last movie.

I’ll get to songs further down after talking about the cast but like every musical movie for me there were hits, growers and something this movie had that the first one didn’t which is a cringe-worthy number. Also there was a slightly riskay opening number with “When I Kissed the Teacher” which yes was performed by the younger Donna in the late ‘70s so I guess was okay for the time but in today’s culture may have been something someone behind the scenes should have double-checked.

Cast:

The original cast made the present day scenes in the movie feel like a reunion which was very nice to see. As an ensemble I do love this cast; Julie Walters and Christine Baranski had more to do in this movie given that Meryl Streep was not present and so they were the maternal figures to Sophie who by the way looked so much like Donna at certain points in this movie it was uncanny.

The dads did not sing really at all apart from the end number and even then you could not hear them so I appreciated that, their dad dancing was in full swing, I really liked their relationship being three potential fathers to the same girl yet still being so close.

Dominic Cooper surprisingly did not do much in this movie despite the end of the last movie making it seem like Sky and Sophie were going to set sail, instead where we find both of them at the start of the movie is surprising and again I think a bi-product of Meryl Streep not starring. However the first Mamma Mia movie was really the first time I had seen Dominic Cooper in anything and since then I’ve seen his range as an actor in both the MCU and Preacher so to see him back where I first saw him was fun to see how far he has come.

Lily James as young Donna was about as close a match for me as Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo because both sets of actors and actresses do not share that instant striking resemblance, again I saw more similarities between Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep than I did Lily James and the former is playing her daughter. However this is probably my favourite role of hers as she played the ‘70s free flower-child type of role very well.

The three young versions of the dads were more evenly matched, particularly Josh Dylan who portrayed young Bill. However I do think the movie missed a trick in not casting one of Stellan Skarsgård’s sons like Valter who I think is age appropriate for the role more-so than young Harry because Hugh Skinner is 33. I do like how all three captured the mannerisms of their older selves particularly with how they all speak and their character traits picked up on in the first movie.

Then of course Cher and Andy Garcia, I am talking about them together because they gave me my favourite part of the movie with “Fernando”. Again I am not doing spoilers in this review but there is somewhat of a twist and nudge to this number that I clocked onto when we first meet Senior Cienfuegos. All I will say is this movie is very much about familial relationships and leave it at that.

Songs:

This is why I love reviewing musicals because I can talk about the songs in depth. As I said before, Iwill be talking about my favourites, growers and problems.

My favourite number is definitely Fernando, I love Cher and have never hid this fact but also Andy Garcia, who I don;t really know as an actor but know he is in the original Oceans trilogy which I do want to watch, was the perfect duet partner for Cher in that number. Cher lights up any scene when she sings but there was definitely something almost magical about that number.

Then there’s “Super Trouper” which was already big in the first movie but as the ending number of the number and led by Cher but then involving the entire main cast it was definitely an event level number.

Other numbers I knew of ABBA’s and liked in this movie were “One of Us”, “The Name of the Game” and “Knowing Me, Knowing You”. All of which had a good scene playing over the number which developed the story and were sung very well by Seyfried, Cooper, James and Irvine.

I also surprisingly liked songs I hadn’t heard ABBA sing before, my taste of ABBA stems from what I grew up with my mum listening to which were basically the first movie soundtrack and the above mentioned songs. However “"Why Did It Have to Be Me?” “Andante, Andante” and “Angel Eyes” were what I consider to be growers for me after this movie. I did miss not having Baranski sing “Does Your Mother Know” or Walters singing “Take a Chance on Me” but “Angel Eyes” was a good compromise.

The only two numbers I could not get into were “I’ve Been Waiting For You” and “My Love, My Life”, the latter is the number that everyone is gushing about and yes I know for a fact if my mum and nan saw the movie they would also gush and the former is a tribute from Sophie to Donna but I like the uptempo numbers more.

Then there are the numbers that return in this movie that I cannot make my mind up on, the epitome of this is “Waterloo” performed by Hugh Skinner and Lily James for the pure and simple reason that during the number when Donna sings the line “Couldn’t escape if I wanted to” I genuinely believed her because Harry just seemed to turn slightly insane with this number. “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia” also return because they’re classic ABBA but they didn’t do much for me aside from make me feel good to hear and see those songs performed again.

Overall I rate the movie an 8.5/10, the first movie for me is a 9 but there was just something about this movie that slightly knocked the score down for me but I cannot quite say what it is because I don’t actually know. It’s still a charming movie with a wonderful cast and great music and has that rewatchability factor to it but while I went for repeat screenings of the first movie 6-7 times which is a record only recently beaten by The Greatest Showman, I do not see myself going numerous times to see this movie...maybe once or twice more.

So that’s my review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, what did you guys think? Post your comments and check out more Movie Reviews as well as other posts.

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Sansa=Cher and Jon=Josh

When I think of Sansa and Jon, I think of another couple who grew up as siblings, bickered a lot, and ended up falling in love. CHER and JOSH! You might think this is ridiculous but there are actually some pretty awesome parallels.

Josh is the nerd/poet, outsider who was raised by Cher’s dad. Josh loves Cher’s father and wants to be a lawyer like him.

Jon is the warrior/bastard(actually nephew), who was also an outsider and was raised by Sansa’s dad Ned Stark. Jon loves Ned and Ned raised him as his son. Jon is like Ned in every way, shape and form.

Cher is the rich, highly feminine/girly girl who starts off clueless, has a heart of gold and is often misunderstood.

Sansa is the highborn, feminine/girly girl who starts off clueless as well, has a good heart but is also often misunderstood.

Both Josh and Jon “claim” that they wouldn’t want a women like Cher and Sansa. Beautiful, feminine, and in their minds completely out of their league. But in actuality, that’s exactly the type of women they want!

Both Cher and Sansa never even thought of the possibility of Josh and Jon. They both wrote them off at first.

Both Josh and Jon (for Jon I’m not sure it’s romantic feelings but more so deep unexplainable feelings) caught feelings first.

Cher realized her feelings later on when another woman came into the picture. I’m pretty sure Sansa will realize her feelings when Dany comes into the picture.

Being an overprotective brother was used by Josh (consciously) and Jon(subconsciously) to cover up their true feelings.

Bickering was used for both Josh and Cher and Jon and Sansa to cover up the true tension between both couples. (Mind you, Josh and Cher’s bickering looked like a normal brother and sister relationship unlike Jon and Sansa’s)

I compare these two to show that:

1. They can’t be together because they grew up as siblings is a played out excuse.

2. Jonsa is possible because this trope has been done before.

If ex step-siblings can fall in love in modern times, cousins in Pre-Medieval Times can as well!

[shamithad]

Changes of Romantic Perceptions

As the title suggests, this blog post in on the changes surrounding perceptions of romance, my romance. Well not so much changes in my romantic life but more so changes of my notion of romance. It occurred to me today that what I wanted a few years ago was so different than what I want now. What I wanted when I was 7 is different than what I want now. 

We all grow up with different notions of romance. Different notions of how it is supposed to be. Different notions of how we are supposed to be. We learn from our surrounding environments and tend to mirror whatever it is we hear or see. My environment was...Bollywood movies. At the young age of 7 I started watching Bollywood movies and my idea of romance had formed. I was never that child that wanted a “prince charming”, at least not the conventional one. I didn’t watch Snow White and hope for a prince to come rescue me. I never thought twice about Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid. For me, what really started my ideas of romance and what it should be, were Bollywood movies. 

The first Bollywood movie I ever watched was Kuch Kuch Hota Hai; a story about friendship, unrequited love and of course the conventional happily ever after. This is the movie that started it all. When I was 7 I really resonated with the character of Anjali because not only did I look exactly like her (short hair pulled back with a hairband, not so great eyebrows and dressed like a tom boy), but I also thought we had similar personalities. As I grew older the parallels between the character and I only grew. I liked a best friend, the best friend liked my best friend. Classic. But what I got out of this movie was that I wanted a best friend in a relationship. I wanted what Anjali and Rahul had before all the mess with Tina. I wanted to be best friends with whomever I fell in love with, because yes being in love is a wonderful feeling but being in love with your best friend is a level of comfort and a naturalness that is indescribable. However, from this movie I also learned that I needed to be more girly to get the guy. I had to wear more makeup, grow out my hair and change up my entire wardrobe. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai taught me to wait for the right one. Anjali never gave up and I knew I couldn’t either. 

Moving on to the age of 13 when I saw this gem of a movie. Pride and Prejudice is a renowned novel made famous for many reasons, Mr. Darcy probably being the main one. I loved the initial fighting between the characters of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The sheer disdain for one another and the immense amount of tension made me crave for what they had. I thought that I needed to find someone I disliked only to fall in love with them because that’s what happened and look how it all turned out! What I really fell in love with was Mr. Darcy’s eloquence. The way that he said what was on his mind and how he spoke his feelings without holding anything back. The scene above is when he tells Elizabeth how much he loves her and while it doesn’t quite work out at first, I love this scene because he tells her exactly how much he loves her. It’s something that doesn’t happen often. We always assume that our loved ones love us back but sometimes it is nice to hear just how much. Mr. Darcy also did everything in his power to make Elizabeth Bennet happy without telling her. His acts were selfless. At the age of 13 I held out for my Mr. Darcy. The man who would tell me how much he loved me and make me happy without asking for anything in return. I was 13...you can guess how lucky I was. 

Moving on to a little older me, maybe 15. I watched Clueless at a pretty young age but upon watching it in high school, I became immediately hooked. I had gone from watching this movie almost once, to watching it at least 8-9 times before the end of high school. This is the stage of my life where I discovered I wanted the “average joe”. The guy who is sweet and soft-spoken and usually goes unnoticed. In this movie Josh is a huge sweetheart. He looks out for Cher and he is always just, there. He’s there through her bad relationships, he’s there when she finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere and he is there when she doesn’t even want him to be. Josh was down-to-earth and I never realized how important that was to me until I watched this movie. He was interested in real world issues and not merely thinking about his wardrobe or if he looked perfect. To him, there were more important things. What I learned from Cher was similar to what I learned when I was 7; I needed to be more girly. But I also needed to start finding something I cared about. Cher found her passion and let go of all the trivial things and her life worked out for her. So at 15 I started to look for things that really interested me in hopes that one day things would fall into place. 

Jim and Pam from the Office. This was the goal of 19 year old me. I think many people can agree that Jim and Pam are extreme couple goals. This went back to me wanting to be best friends with the person I fell in love with. Jim and Pam were nothing without each other. When one was gone, things just weren’t the same and I wanted to be with someone who I knew I was going to feel their absence. I wanted to miss someone and I hoped they would miss me too if we weren’t together. I love Jim because he is the kind of guy that would buy you flowers just because. Or take you out because he thought you deserved it. No reason. Jim was the kind of guy that would tell Pam when he was having a good day and when his day was going terribly wrong and Pam would be there for him regardless. I wanted to be that person. Most importantly, Jim laughed at Pam’s stupid jokes but she wasn’t funny at all. Anyone who has watched even an episode of the show knows that. But to Jim, she was the funniest person he knew. They didn’t need much but each other and that’s all a 19 year-old me could ask for. 

This is where I am now. 23 years old and I have quite possibly taken a step backwards. I’m kidding. I know Enchanted is a movie meant for children but I see it as a lot more than that. I watched this movie back when I was 14 and took it for what it was. A fairytale. I then watched this movie again when I was 22 and it was like watching the movie for the first time. I watched this movie and realized a few things. One, I wanted to rely on myself more to find what I wanted in romance and a relationship rather than waiting for it. Two, I wanted a little bit of magic in my romantic life. And three, I wanted someone who would dance with me. Giselle, while naive at times is strong and hopeful. She is happy with what is out there and doesn’t dwell on the past too much because she looks forward to the future. Robert tries. I think at the end of the day that’s all we can ask for. Someone who tries and who will keep trying. No he isn’t perfect but people rarely are. Robert is chivalrous and takes care of Giselle in a way that makes her feel more empowered than saved. 

In the span of 16 years there were quite a few things that changed in terms of my perceptions of what romance should be and what I was looking for in a partner. Reflecting on all of this above, I realize that I don’t need to look the part. I don’t need to be an Anjali or a Cher or a Giselle. I think being me is enough. And I do not want to dislike the person when I first meet them. While interesting and great for those who like the chase, that is not who I am. I would rather skip all of that and get straight to the getting to know each other part. But other than that, I don’t think anything has changed and if anything I want all of the above. I didn’t realize it until putting this post together that, I already do.   

[fontainebleau22]

When I look at you...

Billy climbed down from the wagon, package under one arm. ‘See you Thursday,’ he called, ‘and tell Josh he won’t be pulling the same stunt as last week. We’re onto him.’

Vasquez slapped the reins and laughed. ‘He’s already thought up a new one. Prepare to be cleaned out one more time!’

Billy raised his hand in thanks for the lift and set off down the path to where the low house lay in the shelter of the cottonwoods. It wasn’t as though he needed a wagon ride from town – he was still perfectly capable of walking, but as the years had crept up, a little assistance at the end of the day was shamefully welcome.

Instead of going in the front door he walked around the side of the house, past the newly-dug bed where Sam’s boys were competing to raise the tallest sunflower, and round to the back porch where he knew Goody would be at this time of day. He found him just as expected, gazing out across the plain to the distant hills, spectacles laid on top of his papers and coffeecup on the table next to him.

Goodnight turned at his approaching step. ‘Successful trip?’ he asked, with the same dazzling smile that made Billy’s heart turn over, no matter how many times he saw it.

‘Yes,’ said Billy, ‘saw to the livery business, and called on Trent about the mine. Got us some good Tennessee whisky as well.’

‘I’ll fetch some glasses,’ said Goodnight, making to rise, but Billy held out the paper-wrapped package and said more hesitantly, ‘And I bought you a present.’

‘Any occasion?’ asked Goodnight, concern crossing his features. ‘Not something I should have remembered?’

‘No,’ said Billy cautiously, ‘just something I thought you needed.’

As Goodnight started to open it he said hastily, ‘I’ll go get the glasses,’ and ducked inside, suddenly uncertain of his own judgement.

When he returned, glasses in hand, Goodnight was shaking out a fine new wool vest, a look of puzzlement on his face. ‘A new vest?’ Thank you, cher, it’s most suitable, but there really wasn’t any need.’

Billy took a deep breath. He’d tried to prepare for Goody’s reaction, but clearly this was going to be tricky. ‘I know you favour navy, so I bought it the same; you can change your lapel pins over…’

Goodnight looked even more perplexed. ‘Well, yes, but perhaps I should keep it for Sundays until this one’s seen a bit more wear …’

Billy swallowed. There was going to be no easy way here. ‘It’s a size larger.’

Goodnight blinked, and they both looked down at the vest he was wearing, creased horizontally where straining buttonholes showed the pale shirt beneath. ‘Are you saying – ’

‘It’ll be more comfortable. And more expanse to show off your watchchain,’ said Billy firmly.

‘- I’m fat?’ finished Goodnight, fixing him with a deadly glare.

‘I’m saying your vest is too small,’ said Billy, staring him down. Goodnight broke first, lips twitching, and they dissolved into laughter together.

 ‘I am fat,’ announced Goodnight solemnly. ‘I’m fat, and what hair I still have is white, and I sigh whenever I sit down. Why you stay with me I don’t know.’

Billy settled into the chair next to him and gazed at him affectionately. ‘Have you looked at me lately? Billy Rocks, terrifying knifeman, is now Billy Rocks, elderly Asian gentleman. I have brown spots on the back of my hands, and my shoulder gives me trouble when it rains.’

Goodnight reached for the bottle and poured two glasses, saying contemplatively, ‘Perhaps I should shave off my beard to make myself look younger.’

‘Rule still applies,’ warned Billy instantly, ‘shave off your beard and I cut my hair.’

‘You’ve been threatening me with that for twenty-five years,’ said Goodnight, reaching across to run a stray strand through his fingers. ‘I don’t believe you would.’

‘Try it and find out,’ said Billy, leaning over for a soft kiss and the reassuring scratch of a grey beard.

‘Thank you, Billy,’ said Goodnight. ‘I appreciate it. For saving me from ridicule.’

‘No one would dare ridicule you,’ said Billy, ‘and we’re all trying to age as gracefully as we can. Even Sam’s pretty grizzled these days. Though Vasquez does seem to be the exception – some kind of Mexican witchcraft, it must be. He gave me a lift back from town and I swear he was looking at me like I was his grandfather.’

Goodnight laughed. ‘Really, Billy.’ They sat back, drinks in hand, in the evening sun and Goodnight’s eyes grew soft as he gazed at him. ‘Looking at you is my favourite occupation, and when I do, I don’t see an elderly Asian gentleman. I see the wild prizefighter I first met in Texas, so handsome I thought I might die there and then; I see the suspicious stranger who rode out with me for that first year. I see my love Billy when we finally found each other. I see the hero fighting Bogue’s men in the smoke and flames, and I see the pale-faced ghost with the bleeding gut wound who got up from his sickbed to find me in mine, and that is still the single most welcome sight of my entire life. I see you the day we finished this house, taking my hand to walk into our home; I see you sitting down at the creek fishing with Sam’s boys when they were small; and I see you as you were this morning, putting on your hat to go out. When I look at you I see our whole life together.’

 Billy felt his throat close at the naked devotion in Goodnight’s face and the flood of memories conjured by his words. Speaking his love had never come easily to him, but as he looked at the man beside him he saw exactly what he meant, and his answer flowed from his lips without effort.

 ‘And I see our life in you. I see you skinny and jittery when we first met, sitting on your fancy horse, talking, talking, talking like I’d never heard a man talk before; I see the look on your face when you watched me and didn’t think I knew; I see you angry, standing up for me in a hundred boarding-houses and saloons. I see you shooting like a demon from the belltower; I see you in shirt-sleeves all sweated, working beside me to build this place; and I see the proper gentleman holding forth on politics in town meeting.’ He brings a hand to touch Goodnight’s cheek. ‘Same blue eyes, though. Never could resist those.’

‘We’ve been so lucky,’ said Goodnight, voice cracking slightly. ‘All these years. Some near misses, for you and for me. I’m grateful for every second of it.’

Billy took his hand. ‘I could never have guessed that my life would be this way,’ his gesture taking in the house, the town, the plain glowing in the setting sun and the two of them together on the porch, ‘and sometimes I still can’t believe that I get to have it with you.’

‘I love you, Billy,’ said Goodnight softly, ‘did I ever tell you that?’

Billy stood up, took his other hand and tugged him to his feet, ‘I love you too, old man, and a hundred years with you would never be enough.’ He wrapped his arms around him, feeling not just flesh and bone, but the weight of years and memory in his embrace, and he rested his chin on his shoulder to murmur, ‘Let’s hope we still have a few more years to come. And you can get as fat as you like, you know, as long as you keep the beard.’  

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Nerdy Actors That Turned Out To Be Complete Heartthrobs

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Nerdy Actors That Turned Out To Be Complete Heartthrobs

There are many actors who’ve gained recognition as children and youths by taking part in nerdy, dorky, or simply throughout unfavorable characters. Though these iconic dweebs and goofballs are what put these celebs on the radar, you’ll see that they’ve ditched the poofy hair, thick glasses, and awkward pre-teen our bodies and grown into seductive grownup heartthrobs. Simply wait till you see which Harry Potter star was the least anticipated to develop up and turn into one of many hottest actors available on the market!

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Earlier than she was Melinda Gordon on Ghost Whisperer, Jennifer Love Hewitt was on Disney Channel’s Children Integrated on the age of ten. Hewitt has been performing all through her childhood however didn’t get her break till then. Because the premiere selection present on Disney Channel all through the early ’90s, you may wager that Hewitt needed to play some dorky roles, particularly as she neared her awkward preteen years. However after she left, she went on to star in I Know What You Did Final Summer season and have her personal previously-mentioned present, however one factor’s for positive she has actually emerged into her gorgeous seems inside that point!

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We had been launched to Paul Rudd when he performed Josh within the 1995 movie Clueless, the place he was the ex-stepbrother of Cher, performed by Alicia Silverstone. Josh was a bookish faculty child who was at odds together with his air-headed ex-step-sister. After Clueless, Rudd typically took on homely, awkward man roles in Associates and plenty of Judd Apatow-produced comedies corresponding to Anchorman and Knocked Up. Nevertheless, he actually was thought of a hunk after debuting as Marvel superhero Ant-Man within the 2015 movie Ant-Man, securing a spot within the Marvel superhero lineup.

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Emma Watson gained worldwide stardom at age 11 when she made her movie debut as Hermoine Granger in Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone. At that time, she was the frizzy-haired buddy of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, who took her research at Hogwarts arguably extra severe than the boys. She assumed the position for an additional ten years and over these ten years, the world watched Watson develop into the gorgeous lady that she is at this time. She has continued to behave for the reason that conclusion of the Harry Potter movies and has made a reputation for herself as a staunch feminist other than her performing. Emma has blossomed superbly, however quickly you’ll see which of her Harry Potter cohorts had the perfect ugly duckling transition on this checklist!

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt rose to recognition as a child on the ’90s sitcom third Rock from the Solar, by which he performed Tommy Solomon, an ages-old extraterrestrial Informations Officer caught in a pubescent boy’s physique on Earth. We watched as he went by way of puberty on the present and boy, was this transition awkward. Gordon-Levitt made a reputation for himself within the new millennium after starring within the nerdy lead position of Tom Hansen in (500) Days of Summer season and since then has been the delicate heartthrob of many teenage ladies, particularly after taking over extra severe roles in Inception and The Darkish Knight Rises.

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You would possibly bear in mind Danica McKellar as Gwendolyn “Winnie” Cooper from The Marvel Years, which she performed for 5 years all through the late ’80s and early ’90s. She was firstly of her teenagers when she started taking part in the girl-next-door with these iconic cat-eye glasses on the present however sadly discovered it laborious to transition into grownup roles after it ended. Nevertheless, one would possibly say that she was slightly nerdy and stayed that approach—and we imply that in a great way! As an grownup, McKellar went to school and obtained her Bachelor’s diploma in arithmetic from UCLA.

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Does anybody bear in mind Harry Potter’s Neville Longbottom? The chubby, bumbling sorcerer-in-training made pals with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine once they began faculty at Hogwarts. Matthew Lewis performed Neville Longbottom for the entire Harry Potter movies and nobody anticipated him to develop up fairly like this! Lewis was solely 11 years previous when he began the position and everybody can inform that puberty actually paid off for him! When he debuted his new slender and smoldering look, followers of the franchise might hardly consider they had been wanting on the similar man who was launched within the movie as somebody who was getting bullied. Wait till you see what different British actor obtained horny and stole our hearts!

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Zac Efron was only a teen when he had a small recurring position on the short-lived WB sequence Summerland till he turned one of many breakout stars of the Disney Channel Authentic Film Excessive College Musical, which premiered in 2006. Because the lead actor of the movie, he captured many tween hearts together with his Bieber-esque haircut earlier than Justin Beiber was even well-known (the shaggy bowl lower was a factor again then, okay?). However when off the digital camera, Zac typically had his hair unkempt and a horrible sense of fashion. Quick ahead to at this time and also you’ll see that Zac has actually grown into his masculinity! Along with his sculpted physique and clear lower hair (lastly!), he can now make all ladies sweat if he walked right into a room.

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Josh Hutcherson is a baby actor who lent his voice to The Polar Specific and had commendable performances in Kicking & Screaming and Little Manhattan, however his breakout position as an actor was in 2007’s Bridge to Terabithia. For those who’ve seen Hutcherson in any films throughout the early 2000s, you then’ve actually seen him throughout his awkward pre-teen years. However come 2011, his profession hit one other main breakthrough when he landed the position of Peeta Mellark in The Starvation Video games movies. By this time, he has grown up significantly and because the lead in a serious franchise, has turn into one of many hottest stars at this time.

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You recognize Josh Peck as a Nickelodeon star from the late ’90s and early 2000s period when he obtained his begin on The Amanda Present. However his breakout position got here because the titular co-star of the sitcom Drake & Josh, the place he performed the nerdy and “uncool” brother Josh Nichols. Again then, Josh was significantly bigger in measurement and started shedding pounds within the later seasons of the present, saying he was making a acutely aware effort to stay more healthy. The general public hasn’t seen an excessive amount of of Josh after the present ended, however when the 2010’s got here round, the world discovered that each one of Josh Peck’s well being consciousness has actually paid off! Like Josh, this British actor began out in a goofy position however grew as much as increase some eyebrows.

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Zach Braff is finest identified for his position as John “J.D.” Dorian on the hit sitcom Scrubs. As the principle protagonist of the present, we’ve seen Braff’s character by way of all his daydreams and dork misadventures whereas working his approach up the rungs on the fictional Sacred Coronary heart Hospital. Apart from 2007’s Backyard State, we haven’t seen a lot of Braff on-screen, however that’s in all probability largely on account of the truth that Braff prefers to do should of his work behind the digital camera. Catch a glimpse of Braff now and see that he’s now not the happy-go-lucky “scrub” he as soon as was!

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Jaleel White has in all probability performed the nerd of all nerds throughout tv historical past. White appeared on the 1990s sitcom Household Issues as Steve Urkel, the nasal-voiced, annoying next-door-neighbor of the Winslows that the present centered on, however it was clear that Urkel was essentially the most iconic character. As a result of it was his hottest position, White had bother discovering work after the present ended, however took on small visitor appearances on exhibits and flicks over time. In 2017, he co-stars on CBS’s Me, Myself & I the place you may see he’s growing older gracefully.

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For those who’ve ever watched the British teen drama Skins, you then’ve seen Dev Patel as Anwar Kharral, a Pakistani Muslim teenager who was loosely primarily based off Patel’s personal character after he was forged. Patel’s breakout position and introduction to international audiences got here when he was forged because the lead in 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik, a down-and-out Indian teen whose unbelievable journey to India’s Who Need’s to Be a Millionaire? Quick ahead to 2016 and you’ll see Patel in his newest movie Lion for which he was given an Oscar nomination. There’s one other Oscar-nominated actor arising that you just wouldn’t have anticipated to be on this checklist!

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Donald Glover humbly obtained his begin in tv as a author for NBC’s 30 Rock, throughout which era he additionally turned a member of the sketch comedy group Derrick Comedy with whom he starred in Thriller Crew. He gained extra recognition after showing on NBC’s Group the place he performed Troy Barnes, a jock who begins to embrace his nerdy aspect. Glover additionally started a rap profession as Infantile Gambino, which many individuals consider is the rationale he was finally written off Group. He reemerged in tv in 2016 with Atlanta, for which he gained two Emmy’s for guiding and starring within the present.

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Funnyman Aziz Ansari is probably finest identified for his position as Tom Haverford on NBC’s Parks and Recreation. Certain, Tom’s flashy and materialistic character isn’t what you concentrate on in the case of nerds or awkward sorts, however the position was actually on the verge of typecasting Ansari for good. Nevertheless, Ansari proved his performing and writing abilities when he created Grasp of None for Netflix. Ansari performs Dev Shah, a forlorn business actor who navigates several types of relationships as he enters his thirties. Individuals in all probability didn’t see him in a really enticing gentle on account of his position as Tom Haverford, however he actually can change your thoughts when you watch Grasp of None.

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Anne Hathaway made her movie debut considerably as a nerd when she performed Mia Thermopolis within the 2001 film The Princess Diaries. Initially of the movie, Mia is ridiculed by the favored children at college as a result of she is the last word nerd, with frizzy hair and outsized glasses besides. That every one modifications when she discovers she is definitely a princess and naturally she will get a makeover. It turned out that Anne Hathaway naturally seems like Mia post-makeover and she or he has solely continued to stun the general public together with her ravishing seems in loads of different movies since then. Developing now we have one other actor who starred alongside Hathway in The Darkish Knight Rises.

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Actor Jerry O’Connell was simply 11 years previous when he starred in his first function movie, 1987’s Stand by Me, the place he performed Vern Tessio, the obese, shy buddy out of a bunch of youngsters who go into the mountains to seek for a useless physique. All through his life after Stand by Me, O’Connell by no means appeared to decelerate with films corresponding to Jerry Maguire, Mission to Mars, Kangaroo Jack, and a plethora of tv roles. Oh, and puberty has actually completed wonders for this actor as you may see that he clearly shed his child fats.

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Neil Patrick Harris is finest identified for his position as Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mom, the place he portrays essentially the most conniving womanizer in all of New York Metropolis, however don’t be mistaken—Harris isn’t any stranger to taking part in the nerdy roles. He was only a younger teen within the image above when he starred in Clara’s Hart, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and subsequently went on to his second-best-known position, baby physician Doogie Howser, which gained him one other Golden Globe nomination. As a hardworking performer, Harris continues to look on TV, in films, and on stage.

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Christian Bale is probably finest identified for his position as Batman within the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman trilogy however has confirmed his performing chops with different movies corresponding to American Psycho, The Fighter, and American Hustle. However do you bear in mind Bale’s precise movie debut? He was solely 13 years previous when he starred in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Solar the place he performed Jamie Graham, a boy who turns into a prisoner of battle throughout World Battle II. Bale was extremely praised for his efficiency at such a younger age and we’re positive at the moment nobody suspected he’d turn into the stud he’s at this time. The identical will be mentioned a few sure actor/singer who’s arising—simply wait till you see his hair!

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Patrick Dempsey made his movie debut in 1987’s Within the Temper, the place he performed Ellsworth Wisecarver, a teen from the 1940s who was typically caught up with the legislation for working away with older ladies. Regardless of the position, Dempsey didn’t seem like a lot of a looker again then or at the least appeared slightly dorky, in our opinion. However actually, Dempsey has grown as much as be one of many sexiest actors at this time having acted in Candy House Alabama and Valentine’s Day. However he’s presently finest identified for enjoying Dr. Derek Shepherd on Gray’s Anatomy. They don’t name him McDreamy for nothing.

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Michael Cera’s earliest best-known position is that of George Michael Bluth on Fox’s Arrested Growth. Cera performed a timid, awkward teen in a household of overbearing personalities. It appears that evidently the persona works nicely for Cera since he type of turned typecast in these sorts of roles in a lot of the films that he’s identified for (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Superbad, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist). After all, that’s what the women love him for these days and he has at the least grown into his cherubic face as he has gotten older.

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Okay, so honestly, John Mayer isn’t an actor however he has appeared on tv! He’s visitor starred on exhibits corresponding to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, however after all he was taking part in his personal music. Nonetheless, it’s obtained to depend for one thing, proper? Both approach, we couldn’t have a listing of celebrities who’ve gone from nerdy to heartthrob and never embrace John Mayer. Simply have a look at his image on the left! He seems removed from the guitar-playing swoon-worthy singer he’s at this time. However quickly you’ll see what different singer-turned-actor has made this checklist and belief us once we say that Mayer’s transformation can not even evaluate.

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Do you bear in mind DJ Tanner from Full Home? Certain you do! These days DJ is all grown up and she or he is now not a Tanner, however the truth is, she is a Fuller on Fuller Home. Candace Cameron-Bure performed DJ Tanner within the early ’90s and reprised the position in 2016 when Netflix revived the beloved sitcom with a spin-off referred to as Fuller Home. It seems that Cameron-Bure has actually ditched the ’90s wardrobe and large ’80s hair and has grown as much as turn into an extremely gorgeous lady! Not unhealthy for a mom of three!

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Aubrey Plaza’s hottest performing position is that of April Ludgate on NBC’s Parks and Recreation. Her deadpan supply and stoic demeanor have earned her a whole lot of reward which actually goes to indicate how nicely Plaza can painting awkward and strange characters. Because the present has ended, Plaza has gone on to different performing initiatives and has apparently cleaned up her look since her early days as an actress. She has a sure radiance when off-camera, however a few of us we’ll all the time see her because the dorky April Ludgate, wouldn’t you agree?

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Justin Timberlake rose to fame as a lead member of the late ’90s boy band NSYNC, however earlier than that, he was a baby actor on The New Mickey Mouse Membership. Whereas in NSYNC, Timberlake sported curly blonde hair that usually will get in comparison with High Ramen noodles, which solely made him look dorkier than ever. However since leaving the band and forging a solo profession, Timberlake has turn into an attractive, singing heartthrob who additionally seems within the occasional film or tv present. After showing on SNL, Timberlake typically collaborated with this actor from The Lonely Island, who’s arising!

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Andrew Garfield has been performing since he was a child in British tv with exhibits like Sugar Rush and Physician Who. His breakout position got here when he co-starred in 2010’s The Social Community, the place he performed Eduardo Saverin. The position actually helped Garfield stick his foot within the door of Hollywood as a result of that very same 12 months, he was forged because the lead in The Superb Spiderman, which solely elevated his standing as a heartthrob actor contemplating the bodily modifications he needed to undergo to organize for the position. His later work consists of roles in Hacksaw Ridge, Silence, and 99 Properties.

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Mila Kunis is finest identified for her position as Jackie Burkhart on That ’70s Present. She obtained the position when she was simply 14 years previous, mendacity to producers that she was 18 when she auditioned. Because the youngest member of the forged, she was the one one who was in all probability nonetheless going by way of her awkward years. After the present ended, Kunis proved her performing chops with film roles in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Associates with Advantages, and Extract. However maybe one among her higher roles was in Black Swan, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe.

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Invoice Hader began out on the Second Metropolis within the early 2000’s earlier than he was instantly employed as a featured participant on Satuday Night time Stay in 2005. Hader quickly turned a outstanding determine on the present the place he has confirmed that he can play any sort of character possible, particularly the awkward and dorky form. He has even ventured into movies corresponding to Scorching Rod, Superbad, Pineapple Specific, and The Skeleton Twins. Hader is actually one of many extra underrated actors on this checklist however off digital camera is aware of learn how to shed his nerdy aspect. Developing now we have an actor who starred alongside Hader in Scorching Rod and was additionally a forged member on SNL.

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Justin Lengthy is certainly an actor who is aware of learn how to go nerdy. Typically forged within the outcast roles with movies corresponding to Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Accepted, and Herbie: Absolutely Loaded, Lengthy proves on the pink carpet that he shouldn’t be taken severely as a nerd however somewhat as a possible male heartthrob. Though he has taken on roles in films that aren’t fairly as severe, Lengthy is a type of actors that individuals love for his lovely nature. In any case, who higher to be a spokesperson for Apple than Lengthy? If that doesn’t say cool however nerdy, we don’t know what does.

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America Ferrera obtained her begin within the Disney Channel unique film Gotta Kick It Up! and in The Sisterhood of the Touring Pants films, earlier than happening to her most notable position as Betty Suarez on ABC’s Ugly Betty. There, she was made as much as look as dorky as they arrive with glasses and braces, a colourful wardrobe, and a physique that usually turned the topic of ridicule. Nicely, after the long-lasting present’s finish, Ferrera took on few performing roles however not too long ago returned to tv in 2015 with NBC’s Superstore. When not in character, you may see that Ferrera is definitely fairly gorgeous.

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Like Invoice Hader, Andy Samberg rose to prominence as a forged member on SNL the place he typically performed dorky characters, in all probability due to his goofy character off-screen, which his roles in films like Scorching Rod, I Love You, Man, and That’s My Boy solely helped to emphasise. However when he’s not taking part in a personality and simply being Andy Samberg, you may see that the actor actually is aware of learn how to clear up his act – fairly actually. He would possibly even be thought of a women man if he had been taken slightly extra severely! We’re positive that lots of people would have mentioned the identical a few sure baby actor who’s arising quickly!

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Canadian rapper Drake was credited by his actual identify Aubrey Graham when he was on Degrassi: The Subsequent Era. Drake was solely 15 years previous when he was forged within the position of a teen basketball star who turns into disabled from the waist down, making him wheelchair-bound for a majority of the sequence. After leaving the present in 2007, Drake was already on the helm of his burgeoning rap profession. Quick ahead about ten years later and Drake is now one of the crucial standard rappers within the enterprise with three Grammy’s and 4 triple-platinum data.

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Hayden Panettiere has been performing since she was simply 11-months-old and shortly went on to have small roles on totally different tv exhibits. Considered one of her most outstanding recurring tv roles was on Malcolm within the Center, the place she performed Jessica, Malcolm’s manipulative next-door-neighbor. On the present, she had glasses and generally extremely frizzy hair, however she would quickly ditch the frumpy ‘do and go on to extra outstanding roles in Ice Princess, Carry It On: All or Nothing, and her hottest position, Claire Bennet on Heroes. Anybody bear in mind “save the cheerleader, save the world?”

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Twins Dylan and Cole Sprouse made their movie debut sharing the position of five-year-old Julian, the lovely little troublemaker who’s put within the care of Adam Sandler on Massive Daddy. As pre-teens, they had been heavy gamers on Disney Channel with their very own present, The Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody, by which Dylan performed trouble-making, immature Zack and Cole performed precocious and bookish Cody. After their tenure with Disney Channel, the twins took a break from performing to attend NYU, having graduated in 2015. Since then, Cole has returned to performing and performs Jughead Jones on Riverdale and Dylan is rumored to be doing the identical in indie movies. Developing, now we have one other former Disney star who performed one of many goofiest roles ever!

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Jonathan Lipnicki made his movie debut on the age of six in Jerry Maguire, however you would possibly bear in mind him in his hottest position of George Little from Stuart Little, a few boy whose household adopts an anthropomorphic mouse. With a spherical, cherubic face, large glasses, and a darling little smile like that, it appeared that Lipnicki would by no means shed his little-boy picture. He hasn’t even actually been within the highlight since his adolescent roles, though he has continued to behave. However have a look at him within the current day and you will notice that this man has actually grown up.

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Nicholas Hoult was solely 11 years previous when he was forged within the critically-acclaimed 2002 movie A few Boy, for which he was nominated for a Younger Artist Award for Finest Efficiency by a Main Younger Actor in a Function Movie. However nowadays, Hoult is now not a boy. He’s now often called Beast within the present sequence of X-Males movies and is taken into account one of many hottest younger English actors round. Don’t assume that he solely will get credit score for enjoying Beast nowadays both. Hoult can be seen in Mad Max: Fury Highway, Insurgent within the Rye, and The Present Battle.

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Shia LaBeouf started performing stand-up in comedy golf equipment on the age of ten and finally hit it massive when he was forged within the lead position of Louis Stevens on Disney Channel’s Even Stevens. LaBeouf performed the immature and mischievous Louis to a tee however proved he might tackle extra severe roles when he was forged because the lead in Holes following his departure from the present. As an grownup, LaBeouf was forged in Transformers and his profession solely skyrocketed from there. Regardless of his “artsy” antics and authorized troubles, LaBeouf actually shed his goofy picture and is now a famend actor and efficiency artist. However hold studying to see who was additionally a teen actor concurrently LaBeouf however grew into somebody ten instances hotter!

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Lea Michele has acted on Broadway since she was eight years previous, however it wasn’t till her early 20’s that she made her transition to tv. In 2009, Lea Michelle debuted to most of the people’s tv screens as Rachel Berry on the Fox sitcom Glee. Rachel Berry is an over-achieving, frumpy—albeit extraordinarily proficient—member of McKinley Excessive’s glee membership. Though she was identified for her uptight character for a number of years, Michele has ventured into different performing roles and has confirmed that she is hardly something like Rachel Berry. She can also be identified for her roles on Scream Queens and The Mayor.

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Admittedly, Zooey Deschanel has a fame for being a bit dorky, however is a dork in essentially the most whimsical and lovely approach—in any case, isn’t that what everybody loves her for? She is hottest for her position as Jessica Day on Fox’s New Woman however will be seen in different performing initiatives from the previous. She can be seen in Elf alongside Will Ferrell, The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy, and even Virtually Well-known. However maybe one among Deschanel’s different iconic roles is that of Summer season Finn in (500) Days of Summer season.

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Emma Roberts was identified to tweens of the early 2000s as Addie Singer, the principle character of the Nickelodeon present Unfabulous. She portrayed a daily and generally hapless middle-schooler who was by no means actually thought of the favored child in class. After the short-lived sequence, Roberts went on to pursue extra performing roles, largely in PG films like Aquamarine and Nancy Drew. However Roberts appears to be working laborious to shed her tween-actor picture, particularly by taking over darker roles like these within the American Horror Story sequence. Plus, she’s beginning to look similar to her well-known aunt, Julia Roberts. However we’ve nonetheless but to indicate you the opposite teen actress who performed dorky earlier than Roberts was even on the scene!

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Macaulay Culkin is finest identified for portraying Kevin McAllister within the first and second House Alone films, the place he was forgotten by his household on not one, however two, events. Sheesh! Aside from that, you may catch Culkin in Uncle Buck or Richie Wealthy. Culkin was identified for enjoying hapless characters as a baby however hasn’t acted all through his teenagers and even into his younger maturity, just about staying away from the highlight. He emerged as an grownup in recent times wanting emaciated and gaunt, which induced concern for a lot of. However as of 2017, he’s wanting nicely and is rumored to be returning to performing.

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Jason Segel debuted on tv in 1999’s Freaks and Geeks as Nick Andopolis, a form however aimless high-school stoner with ambitions of changing into an expert drummer. It appears that evidently Segel succeeds at portraying bizarre, awkward characters as he’s ceaselessly forged in such roles with movies corresponding to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, and Knocked Up. Apart from his dorky roles, Segel additionally proved he can play extra heartwarming and charming roles, particularly from having portrayed Marshall Eriksen on the sitcom How I Met Your Mom for eight seasons. That’s when the women really noticed Segel as somebody who might steal their hearts.

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We informed you we had one other teen actress who grew up superbly! Danielle Fishel was identified all through the ‘90s as Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World. At the beginning of the present, Topanga and her eventual husband Corey Matthews had been at odds since they had been solely pre-teens on the time when she sported massive frizzy hair together with her mental angle. Fishel has been on and off of tv ever since Boy Meets World went off the air, however she made each ‘90s child’s goals come true when she and co-star Ben Savage reprised their roles as Topanga and Corey when Disney Channel rebooted the present with the spin-off Woman Meets World.

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Kristen Stewart’s first outstanding position was that of Jodie Foster’s daughter within the 2002 movie Panic Room, however she didn’t turn into a family identify till she starred as Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga films. Ever since then, Stewart has been criticized for her awkward and sometimes-stunted performances, a persona that could be very reflective of how she is when the cameras aren’t rolling. However don’t be mistaken, Stewart truly has some performing chops and makes use of her awkwardness to her benefit. Catch her and her grown-up look in Clouds of Sils Maria, Café Society, and Equals.

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500 Inspirational Quotes on Weight Loss, Health and Success

If you’re looking for inspiration on weight loss, health, success, happiness or any other aspect of life, this article has the best motivational quotes.

It might not be possible to capture all these quotes at once, so bookmark this page for future reference.

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Inspirational Quotes Categories

Eating Healthy

Eating well is a form of self-respect –Unknown

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks –Unknown

What you eat in private will show up in public –Unknown

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels –English proverb

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry– Robert Hutchison

Eat to nourish your body –Unknown

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be they food –Hippocrates

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors –Chinese Proverb

Eat to fuel your body, not to feed your emotions –Unknown

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools –Spanish Proverb

If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy –Edward Jones

Junk food may be cheaper but eating healthy will cost you less in the end –Brian Syuki

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food― John H. Tobe

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants ―Michael Pollan

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine ―Dr. Joel Fuhrma

Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout ―Summer Sanders

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life ―William Londen

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition ―Thomas Edison

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth —Ezra Taft Benson

Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment —Victoria Moran

Exercise

Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body –Cher

Exercise more, soon it’s going to feel amazing –Unknown

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you have a kingdom –Jack Lalanne

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness –Edward Stanley

Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise –Carrie Latet

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far – Thomas Jefferson

Exercise can transform your life, not just your body –Brian Syuki

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity –John F. Kennedy

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world –Paul Dudley White

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states –Carol Welch

The only bad workout is the one you didn’t do –Unknown

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength –Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable –Socrates

I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it –Art Williams

Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your legs and the voice inside that yells can’t, but don’t listen. You just push harder and then you hear the voice whisper can and you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the person you really are –Unknown

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart –Gene Tunney

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all –Joey Adams

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase –Joseph Pilates

I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing –Marsha Doble

Exercise is essential to the health of the whole body; it increases the circulation and the power of breathing, and stimulates every part of the body to a good healthy growth –Winfred E. Baldwin

Obstacles/ Challenges

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere –Unknown

A stumble may prevent a fall –English Proverb

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature – John D. Rockefeller

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is –John C. Maxwell

Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be –John Wooden

You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there –Unknown

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors –African Proverb

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer –Denis Waitley

It’s not the mistakes in life that are important -it’s what we learn from them –Donna Guthrie

Everything you want is on the other side of fear –Jack Canfield

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly –Robert F. Kennedy

Giving up is the only sure way to fail –Gena Showalter

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing – Denis Waitley

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work –Thomas A. Edison

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever –Lance Armstrong

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing –Henry Ford

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit –Napoleon Hill

It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts –Zig Ziglar

Forget Your Past, Forgive Yourself, And Begin Again Right Now –Unknown

I Am Not What Happened To Me. I Am What I Choose To Become –Unknown

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under –Anne Frank

Health

Take care of your body, it’s the only place you live in –Unknown

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it –Unknown

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat –Jill Johnson

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs –Joan Welsh

The greatest wealth is health –Virgil

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other –Joseph Addison

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them –Martin H. Fischer

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear –Buddha

Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering –Francois Rabelais

Health and intellect are the two blessings of life –Menander

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself –Albert Schweitzer

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health –Catalan Proverb

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise –Benjamin Franklin

Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy –Author Unknown

Healthy is merely the slowest rate at which one can die –Unknown

Garbage in garbage out –George Fuechsel

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it –Josh Billings

Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted –Denis Waitley

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system –Robert C. Peale

Goals

A goal is a dream with a deadline –Napoleon Hill

A goal without a plan is just a wish –Larry Elder

Set your goals high and don’t stop until you get there– Bo Jackson

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another–John Dewey

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can’t just sit back and hope it will happen. You’ve got to make it happen –Chuck Norris

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at –Bruce Lee

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures –Charles C. Noble

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals –Brian Tracy

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change –Les Brown

This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything –Scott Reed

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality –Ralph Marston

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving –Dennis Waitley

It’s a dream until you write it down, and then it’s a goal –Unknown

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced –James Baldwin

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things –Albert Einstein

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going –Earl Nightingale

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal –Napoleon Hill

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it –Jordan Belfort

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher –Thomas Henry Huxley

I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants –Zig Ziglar

Habits

The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change –Eng’s Principle

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you –Robert Gilbert

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time –Mark Twain

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going –Jim Rohn

Habit is second nature, or rather, ten times nature –William James

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out –Robert J Collier

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily –Mike Murdock

A habit is something you can do without thinking – which is why most of us have so many of them –Frank A. Clark

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit –Desiderius Erasmus

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing –Vince Lombardi

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life’–Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones –Benjamin Franklin

Good habits result from resisting temptation –Indian Proverb

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of –Unknown

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit –Publicus Syrus

The sum of one’s intelligence is the sum of one’s habits of mind –Lauren Resnick

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits –Mark Twain

Good habits are worth being fanatical about– John Irving

Habit is stronger than reason– George Santayana

Procrastination

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice –William James

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week –Spanish Proverb

Procrastination is the thief of time –Edward Young

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing –Walt Disney

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it –Olin Miller

You may delay, but time will not –Benjamin Franklin

Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin –Victor Kiam

The best way to get something done is to begin –Unknown

How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’–Martin Luther

A year from now you may wish you had started today –Karen Lamb

Following-through is the only thing that separates dreamers from people that accomplish great things –Gene Hayden

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision –Harry A. Hopf

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right –Napoleon Hill

Stop talking. Start walking –L.M. Heroux

Begin doing what you want to do now –Marie Beynon Ray

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried –Unknown

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle –Abraham Lincoln

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in –Napoleon Bonaparte

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone –Pablo Picasso

Planning

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small –Sun Tzu

Good intentions might sound nice, but it’s positive actions that matter –Tim Fargo

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail –Benjamin Franklin

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else –Yogi Berra

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door –Confucius

It’s not the plan that’s important, it’s the planning –Dr. Gramme Edwards

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow –Geoge S. Patton

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it –Antoine de Saint Exupery

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work –Peter Drucker

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan –Eleanor Roosevelt

Plans are nothing; planning is everything –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential –Winston Churchill

It’s not the plan that is important, it’s the planning –Dr Graeme Edwards

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow –George S. Patton

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan –Norman Vincent Peale

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification –Publilius Syrus

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail –Napoleon Hill

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now –Harry S. Truman

Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away –Indira Gandhi

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work –Peter Drucker

Willpower

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not –James Gordon

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will –Mahatma Gandhi

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do –Johann von Goethe

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven’t dealt with the root cause –Rick Warren

Nothing is easy to the unwilling –Thomas Fuller

Will is character in action –William McDougall

Men can do all things if they will –Leon Batista Alberti

Most of life’s actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower –Robert McKee

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless –Aleister Crowley

The more things you do, the more you can do –Lucille Ball

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much –John Ortberg

All things must, man is the only creature that wills –Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast –Jim Rohn

Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes –Chinese Proverb

The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win –Bobby Knight

You are only as lazy or lacking in willpower as you think you are –Ken Christian

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose –Benjamin Disraeli

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will –Norman Cousins

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear –Dan Millman

Fear

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will –James Stephens

Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real –Unknown

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows –Japanese Proverb

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? –Vincent van Gogh

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop –Usman B. Asif

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them –Brendan Francis

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering –Yoda

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear –Nelson Mandela

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood –Marie Curie

The key to change… is to let go of fear –Roseanne Cash

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back –Babe Ruth

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets –Marilyn Monroe

Fear is faith that it won’t work out –Unknown

Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike –Arthur Ashe

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow –Unknown

There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid –Frederick W. Cropp

Do one thing every day that scares you –Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance –Arnold Glasow

Stress/ Anxiety

It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it –Hans Selye

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained –Arthur Somers Roche

Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far –Jodi Picoult

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it –Sydney J. Harris

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started –David Allen

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive –Lee Iacocca

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another – William James

Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries –Astrid Alauda

My need to solve the problem is the problem –Unknown

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over –Guy Finley

Smile, breathe, and go slowly –Thich Nhat Hanh

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles –Charlie Chaplin

Anxiety is one little tree in your forest. Step back and look at the whole forest –Unknown

God didn’t do it all in one day. What makes me think I can? –Unknown

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it –Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action –Walter Anderson

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer –William S. Burroughs

Perfectionism

Have no fear of perfection–you’ll never reach it –Salvador Dali

Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate –Maria Shriver

You don’t have to be perfect in order to be successful –Unknown

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don’t live in a perfect world –Joyce Meyer

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence –Vince Lombardi

Striving for excellence motivates you, striving for perfection is demoralizing –Harriet Braiker

No one is perfect — that’s why pencils have erasers –Unknown

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault –John Henry Newman

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness –Aristotle

It is no crime not to be perfect –Unknown

To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing –Elbert Hubbard

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect –Chinese Proverb

When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target –George Fisher

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends –Chinese Proverb

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection –William Faulkner

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless –Italian Proverb

Positive thinking

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once –Paulo Coelho

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy –Norman Vincent Peale

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality –Brian Tracy

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking –Robert H Schuller

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened –Mark Twain

The past has no power over the present moment –Eckhart Tolle

The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one? –Steve Schulte

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out –John Wooden

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude –Oprah Winfrey

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow –Seth Godin

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results –Willie Nelson

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision –Dalai Lama

If you can change your mind, you can change your life –William James

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future –Robin Sharma

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right –Henry Ford

All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything! –Gary W Goldstein

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was –Muhammad Ali

Hard work

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work –Stephen King

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up –Babe Ruth

Nothing worth having comes easy –Theodore Roosevelt

Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up –Unknown

I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it –Thomas Jefferson

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point –Eric Thomas

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory –Mohandas Gandhi

Without labor nothing prospers – Sophocles

No shortcuts, work for it –Unknown

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst – Campbell Scott

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them –Ann Landers

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted –David Bly

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work –Colin Powell

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work – Peter Drucker

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did –Newt Gingrich

No one ever drowned in sweat –USMC

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity –Louis Pasteur

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all –Michelangelo

Running

Any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy –John Bryant

It’s supposed to be hard…the hard is what makes it great –Unknown

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon –Kathrine Switzer

To be a good runner, you must first be a good athlete –Jay Johnson

Good things come slow, especially in distance running –Bill Dellinger

One thing about racing is that it hurts.  You better accept that from the beginning or you’re not going anywhere –Bob Kennedy

Run the first two-thirds of the race with your head and the last third with your heart –Unknown

If you want to run, then run a mile.  If you want to experience another life, run a marathon –Emil Zatopek

We must wake up to the fact that athletics is not, nor ever can be perfected; there will always be more to learn –Arthur Newton

Run hard when it’s hard to run –Pavvo

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward –Frank Shorter

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination –John Bingham

Out on the roads, there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be –George Sheehan

The long run puts the TIGER in the cat –Bill Squires

Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion –Gail W. Kislevitz

I often hear someone say I’m not a real runner. We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner –Bart Yasso

The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other… but to be with each other –Christopher McDougall

Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body –Lynn Jennings

Patience

One minute of patience, ten years of peace –Greek proverb

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish –John Quincy Adams

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life –Chinese Proverb

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today –Thomas Fuller

Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study –James H. Aughey

He that can have Patience, can have what he will – Benjamin Franklin

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile – Unknown

Patience is passion tamed – Lyman Abbott

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking – Buddhist Proverb

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice – George Jackson

Infinite patience brings immediate results – Wayne Dyer

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience – Unknown

Doing interesting work when nobody notices takes patience and belief –Brian Knapp

With patience and understanding coupled with perseverance, you can make progress –Mark Hodgson

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience –Julius Caesar

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy – Saadi

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble –Plautus

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown –Soren Kierkegaard

Patience and fortitude conquer all things –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Visualization/ Belief

If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it.  If you can’t see yourself doing something, usually you can’t achieve it –SEAL, Living With A SEAL

Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful –Sara Blakely

As long as you are seeing ‘what is’, you cannot grow beyond it –Abraham-Hicks

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true –Arnold Schwarzenegger

Develop your imagination – you can use it to create in your mind what you hope to create in your life –Stephen Covey

Do not waste precious time on your faults. Change those faults by seeing them disappear. See the positive image instead –Thomas D Willhite

Everyday visualize another detail of your perfect future –Che Garman

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye and you will be drawn toward it –Dr H E Fosclick

I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible –Sri Chinmoy

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it –William A Ward

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen – Dr Wayne Dyer

Losers visualize the penalties of failure, and winners visualize the rewards of success –Rob Gilbert

There is no fate, but what we create –Sarah Coonor

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you –Jerry Gillies

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real — a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies . Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true –Peter McWilliams

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act! –Alfred A. Montapert

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich –Jim Carrey

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success – Unknown

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion –Dorothea Brande

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears –Stedman Graham

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows –John Powell

What is now proved was once only imagined –William Blake

Everything you can imagine is real –Pablo Picasso

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures –Ben Shneiderman

Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions –Dalai Lama

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it –Bernard Meltzer

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more –H.  Jackson Brown, Jr

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness –Pearl S. Buck

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want –Alan Cohen

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today –James Dean

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes –Andrew Carnegie

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude –Denis Waitley

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom –Buddha

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose –Helen Keller

The greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition –Martha Washington

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action –Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them –Steve Maraboli

If you want happiness for an hour take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else –Chinese Proverb

Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness –Drew Barrymore

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it –Andy Rooney

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe –Marcus Aurelius

Success

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe –Marcus Aurelius

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time –Arnold H. Glasgow

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat –Malcolm S. Forbes

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody –Herbert B. Swope

Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm –Winston Churchill

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world – Lucille Ball

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time –George Bernard Shaw

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else –Albert Einstein

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success –Bruce Feirstein

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence –Mark Twain

No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself —Unknown

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success –James Cameron

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it –Henry David Thoreau

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them –Walt Disney

Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them –Vaibhav Shah

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value –Albert Einstein

The best revenge is massive success –Frank Sinatra

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it –Henry Ford

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can –Arthur Ashe

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment –Oprah Winfrey

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful –Charles Barkley

Meditation

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment –Alan Watts

Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery –Amit Ray

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath – Amit Ray

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded –Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without –Buddha

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax! –Sogyal Rinpoche

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end –Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation and water are wedded for ever –Herman Melville

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime –Sogyal Rinpoche

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! –Wes Nisker

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom –Buddha

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart –Mahatma Gandhi

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit –Jeremy Taylor

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship –C.S. Lewis

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man –Benjamin Franklin

Life is available only in the present moment –Thich Nhat Hanh

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth –James Allen

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind –Caroline Myss

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace –Dalai Lama

Meditation must be continuous. The current of meditation must be present in all your activities –Annamalai Swami

Choices

May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears –Nelson Mandela

Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future –Catherine Pulsifer

And in life, it is all about choices we make. And how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose –Catherine Pulsifer

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life –Carmelo Anthony

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices –Dr. Kathleen Hall

And we have complete control over our own attitude. We are the ones we decide how we feel, how we look at things, how we react –Catherine Pulsifer

Life is a choice – as is how you handle the pitfalls along its bumpy road –Julie Donner Andersen

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude –Judith M. Knowlton

Look for your choices, pick the best one, and then go with it –Pat Riley

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant –Tony Robbins

I’m just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision –Amy Smart

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you –John C. Maxwell

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice –George Eliot

Life is a sum of all your choices –Albert Camus

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy –Gene Roddenberry

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them –Kahlil Gibran

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it –Harry S Truman

Once you make a choice, you have no choice –Anna Chin-Williams

In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices –Dr. Kathleen Hall

Tracking progress

Don’t rate potential over performance –Jim Fassel

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing –W. Edwards Deming

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it –H. James Harrington

What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated –John E. Jones

You get what you measure. Measure the wrong thing and you get the wrong behaviors –John H. Lingle

Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates –Thomas S. Monson

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise –William Dean Howells

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward –Abraham Lincoln

Today’s progress was yesterday’s plan – Unknown

Measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so – Galileo

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak –Hans Hofmann

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything –Ronald Coase

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all –Peter F. Drucker

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I’d have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable –Lenny Wilkens

Accountability

Good men prefer to be accountable –Michael Edwardes

Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it –W. R. Inge

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself –John Stuart Mill

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are –Ceasar Chavez

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment –Oprah Winfrey

At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves – our success is a result of what we do –Catherine Pulsifer

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last –Joseph Fort Newton

Accountability breeds response-ability –Stephen R. Covey

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts –Mahatma Gandhi

Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions –John Di Lemme

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them –Denis Waitley

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself –Louis Nizer

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else –Benjamin Franklin

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top –O. J. Simpson

If you can’t stand the heat, you’d better get out of the kitchen –Harry S. Truman

Motivation

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! —Audrey Hepburn

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel —Maya Angelou

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right —Henry Ford

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence —Vince Lombardi

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it —Charles Swindoll

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough —Oprah Winfrey

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent —Eleanor Roosevelt

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination —Jimmy Dean

Believe you can and you’re halfway there —Theodore Roosevelt

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart —Eleanor Roosevelt

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears —Les Brown

Do or do not. There is no try —Yoda

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve —Napoleon Hill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover —Mark Twain

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed —Michael Jordan

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value —Albert Einstein

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions —Stephen Covey

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it —Henry Ford

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any —Alice Walker

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity —Amelia Earhart

Strength

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing –Lao Tzu

Better to be strong than pretty and useless –Lilith Sainterow

The burden is equal to the horse’s strength –The Talmud

Strength is a matter of a made up mind –John Beecher

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong –Calvin Coolidge

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength –Ralph Sockman

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used –Richard E. Byrd

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can –German Proverb

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks –Phillips Brooks

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength –Henry Ward Beecher

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away –Dag Hammarskjold

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education –Maya Angelou

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within – Unknown

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm –Jean Paul Richter

It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do –Chow Ching

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions –J. F. Clarke

Final Words

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