"I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions."

-- Neil Simon

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“Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.”
“Practice to beat the best.”
“And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.”
“I never asked to be born in the first place.”
“Being precedes Truth, and â€¦ Truth precedes the Good.”
“When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.”

Source : Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.325, Macmillan
“It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.”
“They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.”

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