"It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge."

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Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

Rose Macaulay

“It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.”

Source : "Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity'". Perth Now, July 9, 2009.
“It's important in our role as leaders that we use the platform to address issues, to address barriers, to identify best practices for overcoming these challenges with businesses small and large. Maybe there are some public policy issues that we need to address. Maybe some of them are at the federal level and some are at the state or local level.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.”
“I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line.”

Source : "James D’Arcy Talks AGENT CARTER, Hayley Atwell, and Hints at Finale Surprise". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Febfuary 3, 2015.
“I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.”
“. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.”
“A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world”

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