"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."

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Source : Robert Emmet (1803). “The trial of Robert Emmet: upon an indictment for high treason. Special commission”, p.111

Robert Emmet

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“Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.”
“barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.”
“I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.”
“If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.”

Source : Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).
“My characters come from a good place.”
“To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.”
“The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.”

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