"The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Olivia de Havilland

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“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.”
“In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible... It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.”
“In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.”

Source : James R. Newman (1960). “The World of Mathematics”, p.367, Рипол Классик
“I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.”

Source : Peter Mayle (1992). “Acquired tastes”, Bantam
“The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.”
“It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.”

Source : "Cilla Black blames hearing problems on damage done by acoustics of Liverpool's Cavern Club" by Danny Walker, www.mirror.co.uk. July 23, 2014.
“Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.”

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