"Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing."

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Source : Jessica Mitford (2012). “Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking”, p.219, New York Review of Books

Jessica Mitford

#Enemy Quotes #Important Quotes #Passing Quotes

“Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid.”
“Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”

Source : Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.22
“When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.”
“You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.”
“For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are different 'It' factors for different players. There are all kinds of different personalities of quarterbacks around the league, but there are a lot of good ones and they don't necessarily think and act alike. But I do think there are moments during games even on the collegiate level where you can see that this guys is something different, someone sees things differently, they see things a little bit quicker, they're a little bit more cognizant of what's going on. I think it's something like that.”
“Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.”
“When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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