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“I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.”
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“And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front of you. But when you're shooting, you just see a character in front of you, and an actor, and you try to search for very truthful moments. That's what obsesses you.”
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“Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.”
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“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”
Source : "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001. 
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“For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.”
Source : 1570 The Schoolmaster, bk.2.
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“In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.”
Source : "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.
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“Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still”
Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
