"The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!"

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Source : James Finn Garner (2011). “Politically Correct Bedtime Stories”, p.9, Souvenir Press

James Finn Garner

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“It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
“I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.”

Source : "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.
“The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.”

Source : Max Scheler (2017). “The Nature of Sympathy”, p.388, Routledge
“Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.”
“God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.”
“I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.”
“I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.”
“Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.”

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