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“I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.”
Source : Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. April 2, 2009.
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“and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.”
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“For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.”
Source : Alan Paton, Colin Oxenham Gardner (1975). “Knocking on the Door”, David Philip Publishers
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“The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.”
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“Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing...you get the idea.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.”
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“I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.”
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“I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!”