"We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action."

-- Pope Gregory I

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“Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.”
“It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuitingâ€”corruption and favoritism, mostlyâ€”endemic to the system.”
“Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.”
“American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I donâ€™t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented on screen as they are now. The biggest problem isnâ€™t genuinely independent cinema, where lower budgets mean more opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. The problem is the six major studios that dominate the box office, the entertainment chatter and the popular imagination. Their refusal to hire more female directors is immoral, maybe illegal, and has helped create and sustain a representational ghetto for women.”
“I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.”
“I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.
“I'm proud to be part of a generation that is looking ahead and wants to see a brighter future.”

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