"It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.”

Source : Larry L. King (1985). “Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King”, p.164, TCU Press
“I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.”
“I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.”
“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.”
“None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.”
“The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1864). “Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini”
“Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.”

Source : Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications
“I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.”

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