"Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection."

-- Samuel Richardson

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“Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.”
“Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.”
“When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.”
“And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban - I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”

Source : "House Republicans promise Taliban insurgent tactics, blame Pelosi" by Johanna Neuman, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 5, 2009.
“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”
“I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.”

Source : "Wanna Write For Latenight? Get Tips From a 'Tonight Show' Producer". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. May 04, 2015.
“Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.”
“I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!”

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