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“To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.”
Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”
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“It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.”
Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2012). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.263, Harlequin
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“What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.”
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“To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.”
Source : "President Xi: Anti-corruption Efforts Need to Draw on Heritage". english.cntv.cn. April 20, 2013.
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“When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.”
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“To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.”
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“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”
Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books
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“It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.”