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“Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.”
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“We never cherish what we've got until the day it's gone.”
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“The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.”
Source : Timothy Egan (2006). “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.”
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“I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.”
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“People create social conditions and people can change them.”
Source : Osonye Tess Onwueme (1993). “Three Plays”, p.11, Wayne State University Press
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“Where there are more guns, there are more gun problems, it 's particularly dangerous to have a gun around when people do things spontaneously. In college, from a public health standpoint, brains are n't fully developed.”
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“These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.”