"Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library."

-- Michael Caine

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“I met my manager when I was in high school and I just started playing guitar. He came from a line of managing incredible artists. He said instead of opting for the quick fix he wanted me to go out and live my life and get some experience under my belt and keep in touch. It took me a long time to get to where I am but I wouldn't change it for nothing. It's been very valuable. Life happened and then the music came.”
“To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman”
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”

Source : 'Heraclitus'; translation of Callimachus 'Epigram 2' in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
“It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
“I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.”
“Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.”
“Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.”
“I was two years old when I told my mom I was going to be in a band when I grew up, and I was four years old when I started my first band with my neighbors. Before I knew how to do anything, I was figuring out how to be in a band.”

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