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• I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

  Spalding Gray

  Country, Travel, Home

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• Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

  John Legend

  Perfect, Tears, Together

  John Legend's Commencement Address at at the University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

  David Viscott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Taken

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• Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

  Jose Saramago

  Perfect, Sublime, Needs

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• Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

  Mary Balogh

  Perfect, Perfection, Moments

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• It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Years, Perfect

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.

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• We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Sadness, Perfect, Laughing

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Betrayal, Heads Or Tails, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Thinking, June

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• When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

  Lou Reed

  Perfect, Trying, Albums

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• There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Perfect Parents, Perfect Child

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from May 14, 2017

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• The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

  Robbie Fowler

  Moving, Two, Next Move

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• The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

  Ella Maillart

  Character, Journey, Perfect

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• And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

  Ally Carter

  Dream, Sleep, Perfect Days

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Names, Perfect

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

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• It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  God, Mother, Divine Feminine

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.51, Random House

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• There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Blessed, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 08, 2017

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• We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Glimpse, Moments

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

  Emme

  Home, Butterfly, Perfect

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• There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Beautiful, Struggle, Perfect

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Opportunity, Perfect

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.329, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

  Joss Whedon

  Teacher, Teaching, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

  Sarah Polley

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Remember this, classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Tired, Perfect, Waiting

  "Fall 2012 Hair Trends" by Tabatha Coffey, www.elle.com. September 11, 2012.

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• If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Perfect, Waiting

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