"Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Rupert Friend

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“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”
“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
“Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.”
“Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
“We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.”
“Tell no lies' claim no easy victories”

Source : Amilcar Cabral (1979). “Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral”, p.15, NYU Press
“There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.”
“The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.”

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