"I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose [a child] cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them."

-- Kim Basinger

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“Survey says: one more for the bad guys.”
“And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.”
“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.”
“I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.”

Source : Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.
“I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.”

Source : "Sheryl Sandberg Joins Global Women Leaders in Tech to Demand Gender Equality" by Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.
“For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.”
“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
“Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.”

Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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