"You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way."

-- Terry McMillan

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“Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.”
“Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.”

Source : Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.
“How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?”
“But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.”
“If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence. I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me. Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.”
“Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.”
“Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.”

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