"In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastâ€”sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories."

-- George Eliot

#Memories Quotes #Men Quotes #Past Quotes

“Don't hate on my fans. Hate on me.”
“One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.”
“I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.”

Source : "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.
“I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.”

Source : "Whatever you Will" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.
“Can I bite you here, too?”
“Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?”
“The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us. ...”
“I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.”

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

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