"I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra."

-- Harriet Walter

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“Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"”
“Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.”
“We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.”
“Thought, not money, is the real business capital.”
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.”

Source : Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)
“I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.”
“Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.”
“We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.”

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