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“Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.”
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“If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.”
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“Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.”
Source : Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.117, New World Library
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“We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.”
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“When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'”
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“It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'”
Source : "Helen Mirren confronts the final female taboo" By Sarah Rainey, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 4, 2013.
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“In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.”
Source : Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage
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“Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.”