"When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease."

-- Laura Ziskin

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“Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.”
“If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be BeyoncÃ©. If Aaliyah were still here, she and BeyoncÃ© would be neck and neck.”
“You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.”
“The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.”
“But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.”
“The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1910, Delphi Classics
“You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.26, Image Continuum Press

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