"That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him."

-- Jonathan Stroud

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“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.”
“People aren't always what you want them to be”
“I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.”
“We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.”
“It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.”
“Did your great-grandfather have any children?”

Source : "Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2011.
“The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?”

Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.5, A&C Black
“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.”

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