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“One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.”
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“Movies and Disney World don't create addicts”
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“Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.”
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“Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.”
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“Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.”
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“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”
Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse
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“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”
Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.102, Open Road Media
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“Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?”
Source : Song: Now: Let's Get It On
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“Dressmaking is the architecture of movement”
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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
Source : Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black
