"When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything."

-- Jill Abramson

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“Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences,. . . . they are all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.”
“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.”
“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”
“While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs”
“Iâ€™ve won his heart, but itâ€™s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And itâ€™s not really marriageâ€”not like the marriage you have with Camâ€”until heâ€™s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.”
“Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.”

Source : "Ten Questions for Bright Star’s Jane Campion: 'I’ve Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.
“Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.”

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