"If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse."

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Source : Steve Berry (2007). “The Venetian Betrayal: A Novel”, p.111, Ballantine Books

Steve Berry

#Pain Quotes #Want Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.
“I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.”
“My message is, is that although some of you didn't agree with the actions we took, now let's work together to rebuild Iraq, rebuild Afghanistan, fight AIDS and hunger, deal with slavery, like sex slavery, and deal with proliferation. Let's work together on big issues.”
“The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet the needs of a later age...A few scholars go even further, doubting even the existence of Muhammad.”
“I don't judge myself by what someone says.”
“I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to create emotions, love and togetherness. Communication, which comes from this idea that sparks off of humanity and becomes something that is cherished and loved by the people, is very fascinating to me.”

Source : "Lollapalooza 2011: Q&A with Damian Marley". Interview with Victoria Rodriguez, www.usatoday.com. August 3, 2011.
“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I donâ€™t want to know the time when Iâ€™ll have to come to the studio even earlier.”

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