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“If you could have won, you should have.”
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“How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.”
Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
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“Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.”
Source : William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”
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“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”
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“Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!”
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“Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.”
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“That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.”
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“The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.”
Source : "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.