"The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't."

-- William Faulkner

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“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”
“An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.”
“To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.”
“He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.”

Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.278, Macmillan
“We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.”

Source : Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.
“Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.”

Source : Speech on Being Nominated to Serve as U.S. Supreme Court Justice, delivered 10 May 2010
“I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.”
“Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.”

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