"I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being."

-- William Styron

#Sadness Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity”
“Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.”
“Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.”
“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.”

Source : "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.
“I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.”
“We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin- a little fellow trying to do the best he could.”
“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”
“I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.”

Source : "Teresa Palmer is All Too Human in ‘Warm Bodies’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. January 31, 2013.

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