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“Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.”
Source : Interview with Tamler Sommers, believermag.com. March 2003.
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“Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.”
Source : Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
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“Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.”
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“In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.”
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“Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.”
Source : Vicki Baum, Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1931). “Results of an Accident”
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“But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”