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“Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.”
Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009. 
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“God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.”
Source : "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.
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“If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.”
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“I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.”
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“Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.”
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“The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.”
Source : Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”
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“Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.”
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“All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.”
