"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end . . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake."

-- Walter Pater

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“The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.”
“I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.”
“I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.”

Source : "Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on "Save the Date" and Her Raunchy Comedy "Bachelorette". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. January 25, 2012.
“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
“One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.”
“Cut my pie into four pieces, I donâ€™t think I could eat eight.”
“Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.”
“The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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