"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."

-- Shelby Foote

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“Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.”
“It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.”
“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.”
“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2007). “The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio”, p.132, Macmillan
“Things do not happen, we must make them happen”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.726, Pan Macmillan
“Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.”
“I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.”

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