"Around here, we're as happy as God in France."

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Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.54, Atlantic Books Ltd

Herman Koch

“Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.”
“Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music”
“Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.”
“It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.”
“In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.”

Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
“I share with a lot of people who have seen The Green film at gay film festivals when you are the only gay guy on the block, you feel this responsibility to be this ambassador. You spend a lot of time making sure that other people feel comfortable with you. The perception that we project on that community, that gets in the way of a clear line of communication.”
“You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.”

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