"I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life"

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Source : Diane Di Prima (2007). “Revolutionary Letters”, p.7, Last Gasp

Diane di Prima

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“The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.”

Source : "TV Q&A: "That '70s Show"'s Laura Prepon". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 13, 2007.
“I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.”
“Any competent actor could have done what I did.”
“My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight and put a microscope on episodes of presidential hypocrisy. And you know, if Donald Trump was going to come after us out on the campaign trail, and as president of the United States through his tweets, I think we are well within our rights to defend ourselves, and also provide that kind of critical coverage to the American people.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”
“A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.”
“Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.”
“Even as we get older, we get in these routines -and routines are nice and comfortable -but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.”

Source : "Interview: Acting, Gaming, And Math Science With 'Searching For Sonny' Star Masi Oka". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. August 29, 2012.

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