"The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic."

-- Alan Bennett

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“I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I'm part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.”

Source : Source: edition.cnn.com
“Writers are given one great story to tell their story. Iâ€™m telling my story as a political document.”
“Life didnâ€™t go how I had planned, but I couldnâ€™t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fightâ€“the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.”
“It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. . . . It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance.”
“Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.”
“To kill nothing, that is love.”
“I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.”

Source : "Liam Hemsworth Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, the Sequels, THE EXPENDABLES 2, TIMELESS, Dito Montiel’s EMPIRE STATE and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 23, 2012.
“I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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