"Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

D. T. Max

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“The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'”

Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.”
“Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on”

Source : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.
“Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.”
“That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]”
“Make space in your life, space for health and happiness”
“To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.”

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