"I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest."

-- Helen Thomas

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“Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.”

Source : "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.
“Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.”
“To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2013). “The Trauma of Everyday Life”, p.19, Penguin
“I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.”
“I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it.”

Source : "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"”
“I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.”

Source : Jackson Pearce (2011). “Sisters Red”, p.154, Hachette UK
“A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.”

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