"I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really."

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Source : "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.

Juliet Stevenson

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“The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?”
“There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.”

Source : "Conference proceedings, Volume 1, Nuclear fusion. International Atomic Energy Agency". Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1978.
“I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.”
“I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.”
“I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.”
“The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.”
“The ten days we passed there [at Ta ChÃªng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the peace of God passes all understanding, and that kept my heart and mind. We put a calm front on, put out our stand daily, and carried ourselves as if nothing had happened. The great thought of my mind in these days, - and the great object of my life, - is to be like Christ. As He was in the world, so we are to be. He was in the world to manifest God; we are in the world to manifest Christ.”
“I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.”

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