"The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story . . .."

-- Jean-Claude Carriere

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“Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.”
“If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.”

Source : "The Art World's Most Fabulous Women" by Miranda Purves, www.elle.com. November 30, 2011.
“The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.”
“There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.”

Source : "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.
“The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.”
“Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
“The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.”

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