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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.”
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“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”
Source : Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.188, A&C Black
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“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.”
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“Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act of caring, of giving, the act of protecting the weak, the helpless, the imprisoned and the desperate. Love is the hand raised in defence. You cannot love and keep your hands clean.”
Source : Patricia Duncker (1999). “James Miranda Barry”
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“I don't think Iâ€m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.”
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“Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.”
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“Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.”
Source : "Ottolenghi Brings the Mediterranean to America". Interview with Anna Monette Roberts, www.popsugar.com. October 24, 2013. 
