“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.”
— David Nicholls, book Us
Source: Us
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Variant: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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