"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS."

-- Robert T. Bakker

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“I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.”
“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.”
“I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.”
“If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.”

Source : Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.87, Taylor & Francis
“I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.”
“Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.”

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