"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."

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“And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!”
“The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.”
“Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.”

Source : Quoted in Hearings Before the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities of the United States Senate: Watergate and Related Activities (1973).
“I probably would like to do more than I do, because I love working, but I can't work more than I work because I have to do some facetime with the family, and the work that I do is just all-encompassing.”
“Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.”
“Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.”
“To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.”
“I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.”

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