"Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium."

-- Jon Ronson

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“Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!”
“Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.”
“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”
“If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.”
“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.”

Source : "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens ", TV Series (1999– ). "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights", www.imdb.com. 2013.
“You have to concentrate on the swing.”
“Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.”
“I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.”

Source : AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. August 2011.

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