"I can swim I'm not bad, but not great."

-- Paula Radcliffe

“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

Source : "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.
“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”
“A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.”
“All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way”
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.”
“I am I because my little dog knows me.”

Source : Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.593, Northwestern University Press
“If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.”
“Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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