"Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison."

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Source : Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

Patricia Neal

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“It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.”
“It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
“It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.”
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”

Source : Davy Crockett (1987). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press
“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.”
“America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.”

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