"There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history."

-- Penelope Lively

#Memories Quotes #Operations Quotes #Preoccupation Quotes

“I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.”
“But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.”
“I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.”
“Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.96
“I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.”
“Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.”

Source : "Bobby Seale, Still Revolutionary". Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. July 20, 2008.
“However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.”
“If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.”

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