"Genius is initiative on fire."

-- Holbrook Jackson

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“Everything looks nonsensical before it works.”
“As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.”
“You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.”
“It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.”

Source : Glastonbury Festival site interview, June 22, 2007.
“Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your liberators are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: Only you yourself can be your liberator!”
“I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.”
“Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.”
“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

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