"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.”
“I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My father used to say to me, "It doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch." And I said, "Really, dad? Even like someone who makes pencils?" "Even someone who makes pencils, it will be fascinating to watch."”
“No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.”
“When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation. But we're living in a world where God doesn't really have an influence, unless it's fundamentalists, so I'll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive.”

Source : "The eyebrows have it". Sunday Times, www.thetimes.co.uk. March 19, 2006.
“Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.”
“We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.”
“A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.”

Source : "Wickedly Savage Passions". Interview with Melissa Mia Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. February 23, 2004.

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