Chris Priestley quotes
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“Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.”
-- Chris PriestleySource : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.”
-- Chris PriestleySource : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.”
-- Chris PriestleySource : Chris Priestley (2009). “Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror”, p.9, A&C Black
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“Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.”
-- Chris PriestleySource : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”
Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.
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“When one door opens, so does another one.”
Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios
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