"No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic."

-- Ann Landers

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“I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.”
“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.”

Source : M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford
“The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.”
“Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.”

Source : "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Press Day Interview, collider.com. March 12, 2012.
“You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
“If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.”
“Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.”
“I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.”

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