"It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers."

-- John Henrik Clarke

#Missionary Quotes #Records Quotes #Foreigners Quotes

“Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.39
“Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

Source : "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)
“Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.”

Source : "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.
“How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a HUGE Star Trek fan. "Songs Of The Ocean" is my tribute to this great story, and it's based on the Star Trek IV movie, the one in which they go back in time. [The Voyage Home ; It's the one where they bring a pair of whales to the future -ed.]”

Source : "Arjen Lucassen: Human Or Intergalatic Space Crusader?". Interview with Igor Italiani, progressiveworld.net. April 2002.
“The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.”

Source : Alec Waugh (2011). “'Sir!' She Said”, p.10, A&C Black
“What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?”
“Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.”

Source : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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