"There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can."

-- Laurie Colwin

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“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
“There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?”

Source : "Young justice: Maggie Q is Wonder Woman" by Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 13,2012.
“I been to many malls from state to state,But I've never been in, say, one this great.I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that's left,But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!”

Source : Song: Albee Square Mall, Album: Goin' Off, 1988
“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”
“But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.”

Source : "David James Elliott Plunges into Sci Fi's Knights of Bloodsteel". Interview with Erin Fox, www.tvguide.com. April 17, 2009.
“The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.”
“To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.”
“Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.”

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