"Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire."

-- Horace

“It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music in a movie and it makes you fall in love with the characters? That's what happened.”
“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”
“If you want it, you've got to give it.”
“I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.”
“After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands”
“Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. â€œHowâ€™d you lose Mags?â€ â€œIn the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldnâ€™t lift her. Finnick said he couldnâ€™t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,â€ I say. â€œShe was Finnickâ€™s mentor, you know,â€ Johanna says accusingly. â€œNo, I didnâ€™t,â€ I say. â€œShe was half his family,â€ she says a few moments later, but thereâ€™s less venom behind it.”
“The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.”

Source : "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.
“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”

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