"There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand."

-- Knut Hamsun

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“When people would ask me what Iâ€™m addicted to, I always said â€˜music.â€™ And while theyâ€™d laugh it off like itâ€™s a clichÃ©, Iâ€™m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. Iâ€™d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when I went to that Virgin Records and it said â€˜going out of business,â€™ my heart stopped.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.”
“In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist and sadistic. But this is merely another way of saying that we cannot understand the Bond books without reference to the personality, the outlook and the 'Tory imagination' of the man who wrote them, and to the time in which he wrote them; and that we cannot understand the 1950s and 1960s without some reference to them, and to him.”
“For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.”
“Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?”
“Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.”

Source : "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.27, Duke University Press

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