"In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again."

-- Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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“The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
“The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't know nothing about nothing.”

Source : "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson. Chapter 8, p. 88, 1998.
“It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.”
“When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.”
“I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.”
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .”
“I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.120, Random House

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