"Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated."

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Barry Humphries

#Nature Quotes #Pearls Quotes #Harbors Quotes

“There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind”
“I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.”
“I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.”
“I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.”
“As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.”
“Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.”
“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.106, Criss Jami
“The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.”

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