"Man is God by his faculty for thought."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
“I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Paul McGann, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2009.
“The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.”
“We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.”

Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.233, Vintage
“Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.”
“Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.”
“(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.”
“At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.”

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