"You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be."

-- Liam Neeson

“I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.”
“The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.”
“When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.”
“Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.”
“I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its vocabulary of definite terms, and of its habit of earthly common sense. I find this country writing an excellent corrective of the urban vocabulary of abstractions and of the emotion disguised as thinking which abstractions and humbug have loosed upon the world. May there always be such things as a door, a milk pail, and a loaf of bread, and words to do them honor.”
“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”
“I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.”

Source : "Bernard Manning has his last laugh" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.
“L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.”

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