"I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image."

-- Anne-Marie Duff

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“Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.”
“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”

Source : David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.6, Vintage
“Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.”
“Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “Presidential Agent”, p.373, Open Road Media
“Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.”
“By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.”
“I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.”

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