"Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Oliver Jeffers

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“No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole!”

Source : Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.91, Scholastic Inc.
“If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.”

Source : "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.
“If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.”
“You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.”
“People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.”
“I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.”
“Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?”
“If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th.”

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