"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."

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Marilyn Hacker

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“It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.”
“I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced ***** in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding.”
“Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.”
“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”
“The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.”
“I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.”
“People come, people go â€“ theyâ€™ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”
“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.”

Source : "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Acton Institute Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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