"I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Akhil Sharma

#Memories Quotes #Taken Quotes #Character Quotes

“I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.”
“When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.”
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
“As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.”
“The problem is that mainly the metal press has an interest in Burzum, and the rest of the world... probably hardly even know Burzum exists, and those who do shy away due to my fairly (:-))”

Source : Source: heathenharvest.org
“It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.”

Source : Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.
“One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.”
“I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.”

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