"Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed."

-- Peter O'Toole

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“I just want to keep going with the soaps. Maybe it's because I'm just so used to them. I was 21 when I started 'Passions' and did that for nine years. It's what I know.”
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”
“That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”
“I don't think anyone can answer whether the Fed is going to have to tighten beyond neutral, ... You have to be looking at the economy going forward and that changes as additional data comes in.”
“I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set”
“Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.”

Source : Amy Plum (2012). “Until I Die”, p.7, Harper Collins
“In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.”
“Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"”

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