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“In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.”
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“The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.”
Source : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.44, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.”
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“My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.”
Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1846). “The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett”, p.83
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“It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.”
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“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”