"As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky."

-- Chris Hemsworth

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“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

Source : "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
“I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.”
“There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.”

Source : James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”
“I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print”
“Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.”
“Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.”
“I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom”

Source : Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”
“I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.”

Source : Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. January 10, 2012.

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