"It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings."

-- Ramsay MacMullen

#Christian Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.”
“It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.”

Source : "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.
“When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.”
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.”

Source : "'Charlie's Angels' chat: Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor, Annie Ilonzeh". Interview with Adam Tanswell, www.digitalspy.com. September 29, 2011.
“Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine”
“Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.”
“I don't always want to play the wacky, crazy parts. I love having the opportunity to play a regular person in an irregular situation in a very realistic way.”

Source : "Interview With Locker 13 Star and Uncle Rico Himself Jon Gries". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. April 07, 2014.

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