"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."

-- Shirley Knight

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“The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.”
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
“The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.”
“I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.”
“An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”
“The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.”
“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”

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