"But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly."

-- Mario Vargas Llosa

“I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.”
“If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I would leave the big studios so I could continue to make smaller films, and hopefully get to direct a few of them, too.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.”

Source : "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 1, 2008.
“Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”

Source : Zona Gale (1927). “Yellow gentians and blue”
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
“Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.”
“What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?”

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