"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature."

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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152

Abraham Cowley

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“The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.”
“I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.”

Source : Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.
“I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.”
“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what â€œjust livingâ€ might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”
“I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.”
“He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.”
“I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.”
“Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.”

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