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“Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.”
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“Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.”
Source : John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.185
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“Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.”
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“So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.”
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“I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.”
Source : "In Politics: Weiner's Fall And Bachmann's Rise". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 17, 2011.
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“My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.”
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“Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.”
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“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.”