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“What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.”
Source : Jim Thompson (2014). “Murder at the Bijou”, p.43, BookBaby
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“Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.”
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“The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.”
Source : Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons
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“The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, ‘If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl.’”
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“Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.”
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“Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.”
Source : 'Aeneid' bk. 1, l. 203
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“... I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time ...”
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“No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.”
Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.10, A&C Black
