"Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion."

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Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Solomon

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“America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.”
“I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.”
“Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.”
“I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.”
“The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.”
“I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.”
“To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself.”
“I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.”

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