"Those Genes Could Have Been Mine"

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Kamila Shamsie

“--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”
“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.”
“Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.
“In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”
“The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.”

Source : Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.21, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.”
“Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.”
“This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.”

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