"Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit."

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

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“I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.”
“The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who is Love. To you young people, who are in search of a firm hope, I address the very words that Saint Paul wrote to the persecuted Christians in Rome at that time: "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit" (Rom 15:13).”
“I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.”
“Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God”
“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Source : "Philosophie Zoologique". Book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809), Vol. I, p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals", p. 109, 1914.
“Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.”
“New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.
“A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.”

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