"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."

-- Helen Dunmore

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“I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on ***** for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on ***** for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.”

Source : "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.
“I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.”
“I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.”
“There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.”
“Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.”
“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”
“Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.”

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