"I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write, very difficult, but I set about doing it."

-- Frederick Seidel

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“It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.”
“Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.”
“I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.”
“I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.”

Source : "Misty Copeland, Chelsea Clinton, and other successful people share the advice they'd give their younger selves" by Elisa Jackson and Levo League, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2015.
“Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.”
“You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.”
“Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.”

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