"I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme."

-- Nicholas Royle

#Country Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Extremes Quotes

“When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2010.
“Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.”
“Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.”
“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!”
“I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.”
“I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.”
“Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.”
“It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?”

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