"Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit down and crack the books open and go line by line to try to learn all that stuff."

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Maurice Ashley

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“I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.”
“I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.”

Source : "Going well over the top: the link between Monty and Mikey" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2005.
“The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos.”
“Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. April 17, 2010.
“Kill the judge in your head and just take action.”
“The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.”

Source : "An Author and his Image: The Collected Short Pieces". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1997.
“It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.”

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