"I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless."

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Source : Michael Frayn (2015). “The Russian Interpreter”, p.43, Faber & Faber

Michael Frayn

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“Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.”
“They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it again and iterate. So I think that's a real key to the films that we've made.”
“Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.”
“Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.”
“The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.”
“Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.”
“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.”

Source : "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.
“For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and so forth, and yet the reality is, during this period, although there were these awful conflicts, the overall number of wars had gone down.”

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