"I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs."

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Source : "I'm Jessica Lynch and Here's My Real Story" by Abigail Pesta, www.glamour.com. June 3, 2007.

Jessica Lynch

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“Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography.”
“We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.”
“From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.”
“Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.”
“I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.”
“One inch of love is an inch of ashes,”
“Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.”
“To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.”

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