"Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?"

-- Dashiell Hammett

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“When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'”
“We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.”
“When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.”
“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.”

Source : "Whitney Houston's Words: 20 Memorable Quotes From the Late Pop Icon", abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2012.
“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
“Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.”

Source : "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.
“Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines”
“Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.”

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