"Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills."

-- Percy Jewett Burrell

#Father Quotes #Personality Quotes #Mills Quotes

“Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.”
“This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.”
“Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].”
“I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.”
“And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.”
“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”
“I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.”
“I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events -- it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.”

Source : "Zhou Xun: China's queen of quirk". www.cnn.com. January 29, 2010.

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