"The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are."

-- Kirk Douglas

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“Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.”

Source : "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.
“The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.”
“In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.”

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster
“Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.”
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.”

Source : "Interview: 'Rango' Director Gore Verbinski". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.slashfilm.com. March 4, 2011.
“As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.”

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