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“And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you’re old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.”
Source : "Fictional character: Julia Jarmond". "Sarah's Key", www.imdb.com. 2010.
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“Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.”
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“I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.”
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“Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.”
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“We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.”
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“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.”
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“Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.”
Source : "TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads How Obama can solve his image problem". www.cbsnews.com. August 1, 2011.
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“If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.”
Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.61, University of Pennsylvania Press