"This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be."

-- Javier Bardem

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes

“What are you talking about, Sin? You don't want anyone to own you... Or your heart?' She laughed bitterly, and entered the Harrowgate. 'I don't have a heart for anyone to take.”
“Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.”
“Touchdowns to me means that you're scoring points and helping your team win games. You can have a lot of yards and not have points and not win games. So, this only means something because it has helped our teams win games and we won the division today in a competitive AFC West, that's a good thing.”
“If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.”
“I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared”
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or laterâ€”no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forgetâ€”we will return.”
“I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.”
“Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.”

Source : Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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