"The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Sex Quotes #Issues Quotes #Religion Quotes

“I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.”
“I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.”
“I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing
“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.”
“I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.”
“For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.”
“What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.”
“Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.”

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