"Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor."

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Source : Katie Macalister (2005). “Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.186, Penguin

Katie MacAlister

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“Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 88), 1968.
“When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.”
“Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!”
“Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.”
“The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.”

Source : "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".
“It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.”
“I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.”
“I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.”

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