"We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel."

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Source : Virginia McKenna, Will Travers, Jonathan Wray (1987). “Beyond the bars: the zoo dilemma”, Sterling Pub Co Inc

Virginia McKenna

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“Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?”
“I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.”
“Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud.”
“My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.”
“If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.”

Source : "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.”

Source : "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.
“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.”

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