"I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood."

-- Tessa Dare

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“I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.”
“The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.”
“You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid”
“If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.”

Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books
“Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved”

Source : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation
“I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology”

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