"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt."

-- Michael Connelly

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“You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.”
“Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.”

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“Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every ***** gets one.”

Source : "Swimming Pool". www.imdb.com. 2003.
“The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.”
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If youâ€™re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary actâ€”truth is always subversive.”
“If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.”
“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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