"It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom."

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Source : Colin MacInnes (1969). “The London novels: City of spades. Absolute beginners. Mr. Love and Justice”

Colin MacInnes

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“Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.”

Source : "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.
“A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.”
“I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.”
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
“It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.”

Source : Bernard Leach (1962). “A potter's book”
“A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.”
“While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.”

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