"It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again."

-- Tim Waterstone

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“Every single film I've done, it's about the character.”
“Iâ€™m not going to change who I am just because people think itâ€™s weird,”
“I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.”
“Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.”

Source : "Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars" By Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2004.
“My heart seem[s] colder than March but on the flipside of things, it's still warmer than June.”

Source : Song: The Life, 2002
“Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.”

Source : "Natalia Vodianova: My family values". Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.”
“After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.”

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