""Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.""

-- Christopher Columbus

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“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”
“I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.”
“As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.”

Source : "Stamina, bravery, brilliance - the great Ben Bradlee had it all" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2014.
“The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
“This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.”
“We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.”
“Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”

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