"In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so."

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Source : "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2003.

John Burdett

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“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the...”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.”
“It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.”
“Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.”
“How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.”
“I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.
“I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.”
“It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.”

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