"There is a higher law than the Constitution."

-- William H. Seward

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“I have no clue what a 'hottie' is. To think of myself in those terms is absurd.”
“Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.”
“Act, and God will act.”

Source : Saint Joan (of Arc), Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon (1907). “Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents”
“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.”
“Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.”
“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.”

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