"The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation."

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“I didn't want to be an actor.”
“I would really like to do a straight action movie that's hardcore - heavy action, like 'The Expendables' or 'Fast Five.”

Source : "Tania Raymonde Talks MTV’s DEATH VALLEY and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 11, 2011.
“Be like a sponge and desire the Lord with everything that's within you. Every case that does that, they are on the floor receiving. People pray for you, that's your time to receive. Pray on the way out, you can pray later. Don't take control, you can take control later. The whole deal is, you lose control, He takes control. He gets you out of your comfort zone, makes you feel vulnerable, right? You can analyze it later can't you?”
“As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.”
“Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.”

Source : "Translator Behind Elena Ferrante Novels Says Her Job Is To Be An 'Enabler'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, capeandislands.org. February 20, 2016.
“I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned”
“One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.”
“The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 13, 2015

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