"After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week."

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William Henry Bragg

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“People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.”
“I do a lot of motivational speaking for young performers and kids who really want to get into acting and performing. I always say, to be as versatile as possible, because you never know which skill is going to help you get a role.”
“With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.”
“To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.”
“My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.”
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source : Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub
“I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, when I was Young”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.”

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