"Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be."

-- Patricia Hampl

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“When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.”
“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
“Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead meets Craig Charles". www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
“Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.”
“If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.”
“The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.”
“If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.”

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