"There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps."

-- Edna O'Brien

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“My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.”
“I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.”
“I don't have RomÃ¡rio's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.”
“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.”
“Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.
“Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random numberâ€“ there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.”

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