"What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me."

-- Mel Brooks

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“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store byâ€•though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman: A Novel”, p.67, Penguin
“I needed a break... from myself.”
“I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.”
“The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.”
“Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.”
“By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.”

Source : Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1988). “Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century”
“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

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