"That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible."

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Source : Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

Rosita Forbes

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“It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.”
“I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.”
“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.”
“Dr. A.Q. Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade, ... He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system”
“I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.”
“If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.”
“Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.”
“Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.”

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