"There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco."

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

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“A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.”
“I think for a film that has real theatrical potential a sales agent is key. For a film that may find it tougher in the American marketplace, such as many of the docs in the world competition that may not be competing for deals - any subtitled film has a harder time in this marketplace - for those films I don't know that a sales agent necessarily helps for the kinds of smaller deals that may or may not be offered.”
“Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.”
“Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.”
“Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook.”
“People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.”
“Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.”
“Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2639, Delphi Classics

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