"My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10."

-- Robert De Niro

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“Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.”
“The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”
“Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who were either not there at the time, or were and have an axe of some kind or another to grind about their own experiences with Crisis. The years between 1977 and 1980 were some of the hardest of my Life and they certainly contributed to Tony and I wanting to destroy the group in 1980 and head for sunnier pastures artistically, culturally, and whatever else we could find.”
“If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.”
“The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.”

Source : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.107, Penguin
“When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.”

Source : Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1335, Delphi Classics
“To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”

Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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