"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."

-- Mark Twain

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“Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.”
“Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out and destroy nature if it does not learn again how to adore God, the God in all of us, God shining and living in nature, and learn again how to act from and in that spirit of adoration.”

Source : Andrew Harvey (1994). “Dialogues with a Modern Mystic”, Quest Books
“You've got to connect with the things that you love.”
“One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.”
“And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company
“In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.”

Source : "The Only Way to See a Film" by Ridley Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.
“I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.”
“There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.”

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