"By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep."

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Source : Kat Duff (2014). “The Secret Life of Sleep”, p.84, Oneworld Publications

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“In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.”
“I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.”
“In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.”
“Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.”
“I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers are providing a kind of template or platform for thinking and imagining.”

Source : Interview with James Yeh, believermag.com. January 1, 2018.
“Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.”
“I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.”
“I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.”

Source : "Uma Thurman says her life is like a reality TV show as she promotes new movie The Life Before Her Eyes". www.mirror.co.uk. March 27, 2009.

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