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Isabel Wilkerson

"I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually."

Source : "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

Isabel Wilkerson

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“For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.”
“I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.”
“In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.”
“If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and itsÂ inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within.Â Falling Out of TimeÂ is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to beÂ underestimated.”

Source : "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.”
“why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.”
“The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.”
“He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and … he who does the best work at the lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.”

Source : "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers". Book by F.W. Taylor, New York, Foreword, 1911.

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