"Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all."

-- A. A. Gill

#Drama Quotes #Character Quotes #America Quotes

“These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?”
“I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.”
“In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.”
“Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.”

Source : Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber
“On the canvas of life, Every sweep of the brush matters, Counts for somethingâ€¦”
“Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.”
“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns â€¦it is safe to predict thatâ€¦ such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”
“I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.”

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