"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."

-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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“I'm always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I'll be there.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is only one me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Golf is my boyfriend right now.”
“I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.”
“The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”
“The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.”
“I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.”
“I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.”

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