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“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
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“It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.”
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“I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.”
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“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.”
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“Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.”
Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz
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“Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.”
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“There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.”
Source : "From Gangster to Guru for Ryan Blair". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 9, 2015.
