"... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person."

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Source : George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

George Howe Colt

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“By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.”

Source : "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.
“The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.”
“Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.”
“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”
“I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.”
“I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.”
“But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.”
“How you play, is how you'll be remembered. Go Hard, follow your heart or be forgotten.”

Source : Interview with Entertainment Tonight, 2009.

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