"History is a set of skills rather than a narrative."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Skills Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.”
“Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn't say that I do it fearlessly.”
“In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.”
“I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.”

Source : "Ashley Greene: The Bombshell". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.
“So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.”
“By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.”
“The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.”

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