"It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim."

-- A. N. Wilson

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“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”
“I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.”
“Sometimes I'll get a bunch of my friends to pretend they're my fans and then I'll walk out on the street and I'll have them mob me just so I can prepare.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.”

Source : "Interview, Audio: Director Ana Lily Amirpour Stirs up 'The Bad Batch'". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.imdb.com. June 21, 2017.
“Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.”
“People think they know me, but they don`t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.”
“Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.”
“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.”

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