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"There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it."
"[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that."
"Why should anything happen when everything has happened?"
"Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?"
"If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen."
"Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect."
"Ebooks had to happen."
"I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen."
"I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen."
"I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now."
"I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal."
"She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen."
"What is best and most necessary usually happens."
