"Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful."

-- Bill Vaughan

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“You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.
“The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.”
“If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.”
“I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.”

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“I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.”
“The women in labor must have NO STRESS placed upon her. She must be free to move about, walk, rock, go to the bathroom by herself, lie on her side or back, squat or kneel, or anything she finds comfortable, without fear of being scolded or embarrassed. Nor is there any need for her to be either 'quiet' or 'good.' What is a 'good' patient? One who does whatever she is told-who masks all the stresses she is feeling? Why can she not cry, or laugh, or complain?”
“I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.”
“My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.”

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