"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Nadia Comaneci

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“Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.”

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“Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.”
“There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.”
“Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.”
“However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.”
“I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.”
“It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.”

Source : Richard Wilbur's National Book Award Acceptance Speech for the poetry award for "Things of This World", www.nationalbook.org. 1957.
“Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.”

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