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“I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.”
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“If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.”
Source : "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.
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“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”
Source : Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678
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“I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.”
Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House
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“I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician might do. Taking my clues from the theosophical use made of the Vedantic levels of reality, I identified the western notion of Energy (as someting which is effecatious by means of motion), with the idea of Time. The more comprehensive dimension 'eternity' I defined as a form of energy which is efficacious without motion. In this manner I began to establish the qualities of dimensions and open out the seemingly monolithic concept of energy.”
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“I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.”
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“Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.”
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“From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car.”
Source : "Miss You Can Do It Premieres Tonight on HBO". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2013.