"There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

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“I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented people as I did in my cast, you definitely don't want to fetter them in any sense. You want them to be able to go out there and do their thing and feel confident in doing their thing, because ultimately I'm the person who gets the credit which is great.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.”
“I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.”
“John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was around 50. Then he started drinking heavily . . . So he drank himself to death. It took him 10 years.”
“That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.”
“I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.”
“In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.”

Source : Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.116, Beacon Press
“You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.”

Source : "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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