"The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go."

-- Edmund de Waal

#Let It Go Quotes #Generations Quotes #Problem Quotes

“My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.”
“He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.”
“There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.”
“When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.”

Source : Boston Phoenix Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.
“It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.”
“Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.”
“It's nice not to be too boring.”

Source : "Barry Pepper Exclusive Interview True Grit; Plus an Update on Terrence Malick’s Next Movie". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 05, 2011.

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