"It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps."

-- Alfred Polgar

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“Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.”
“If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!”
“I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.”

Source : "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.
“The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.”
“... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.”

Source : Colleen McCullough (2013). “Tim”, p.119, Head of Zeus
“I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing home with dementia at the end of his life, but it happened for me personally 10 years ago. My father was much older than my mother, so I experienced it as a pretty young person. People's parents die at various ages, but my father died of mortality. He died of being an old person. Illness and stuff happened, but essentially, he was old and he was going to die.”
“In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.”

Source : "Fiscal policy announcements show Labour and the Tories are diverging at last" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2008.
“And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.”

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