"America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian."

-- Mohsin Hamid

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“You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.”

Source : "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.
“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”
“Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.”
“Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?”
“He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.”
“I kinda always wanted to be an ant.”
“The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.”

Source : Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company
“If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.”

Source : Lawrence Block (1985). “Writing the Novel from Plot to Print”, Writers Digest Books

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