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“Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.”
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“I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else”
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“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.”
Source : Bill Mauldin, Todd DePastino (2008). “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years”, Fantagraphics Books
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“I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real.”
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“Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years. I don't know what people are talking about who use that word. All I do know is temporary non-success, even if I've got to wait another 20 years for what I'm after, and I try to put that into people, no matter what their object in life.”
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“I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.”
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“A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.”
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“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey…delays…sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling burst of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
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“...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.”
Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.519, Cosimo, Inc.
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“I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.”
Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)
