"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."

-- John Hurt

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“My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.”
“If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are”
“How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not 'babble,' I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy.”
“All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.”

Source : Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005
“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”
“Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?”
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.”

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