"That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance."

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Source : "Ian McDiarmid Talks About Playing the Emperor in Star Wars". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. October 10, 2005.

Ian McDiarmid

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“Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.”
“Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.”
“It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?”

Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub
“The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.”
“I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed.”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears Describes 'Perfect Delivery' And New Motherhood" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. July 9, 2008.
“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.”
“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source : G.E.M. Anscombe (2011). “Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe”, p.190, Andrews UK Limited

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