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“It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.”
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“There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.”
Source : "'Burn Notice's' spy guy". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. July 1, 2008.
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“He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.”
Source : "He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower". "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 282, 1895.
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“Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.”
Source : "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (p. 175), 1994.
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“What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.”
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“The government is becoming the family of last resort.”
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“Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.”
Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.160, Scholastic Inc.
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“No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.”