"I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with ***** so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly."

-- Dan Rather

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“The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.”
“Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.”

Source : "Gaspard Ulliel: The French Acting Star and the Male Face of Chanel on His New Film The Princess of Montpensier" by Terry Keefe, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.
“No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.”
“There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.145
“If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.”
“Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?”
“Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.”

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