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Graeme Simsion

"I watched as Humphrey Bogartâ€™s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergmanâ€™s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldnâ€™t. I didnâ€™t care. I had enough problems of my own."

-- Graeme Simsion

#Selfish Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me”
“Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,”

Source : "The Limits of Control". www.imdb.com. 2009.
“My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.”

Source : Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.
“We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.”
“It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do that piece again now and see that it still really works as well as it ever did.”
“Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.”
“Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.”
“The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.”

Source : Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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