"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."

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Stendhal

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“I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.”

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“Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.”
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
“I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.”
“I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.”
“Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.”
“There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.”
“The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).”

Source : "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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