“Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.”

— Ann Brashares , The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Variant: The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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American children's writer 1967

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