"I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them."

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Michael Palin

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“The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.”

Source : Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.
“Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.”

Source : David L. Bazelon (1988). “Questioning Authority: Justice and Criminal Law”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.”
“The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.”
“Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.”
“I'm feeling very angry right now, because I have only one bed and no couch.”
“I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.”
“I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.”

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