"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."

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Gloria Swanson

“I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ...”
“Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.”
“The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.”
“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.”
“I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.”
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
“Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.”

Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

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