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“I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.”
Source : "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012. 
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“You can't take back an act you were able to think.”
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“No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”
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“I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“I have fun every day. The game is supposed to be fun.”
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“You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.”
Source : Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books
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“Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.”
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“I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.”
