"I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in the section marked ANSWERS in the back of my geometry book, there's only a bunch of numbers, and all I can find to stare at in the refrigerator is five carrots and a jar of no-fat mayonnaise."

-- Rachel Vail

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“I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.”

Source : "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.”
“I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then I turned to writing plays. If that paid me well, I don't know if I would have turned to TV. Or coaching. I've now devised a combination of things partly because I'm having fun, and partly because I'm piecing together a way to make a living.”
“Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.”
“The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.”
“I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.”
“I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.”
“I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.”

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