"From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts"

-- Hideki Tojo

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“Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.”
“I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.”
“I do not have very much office experience.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The devil is compromise.”
“Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”

Source : "And the Winner Isn’t..." by Ann Patchett, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.
“When you do children's TV or one episode [guest] stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input.”
“My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Vanessa Paradis, actor and musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.
“People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.”

Source : Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

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