"I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'"

-- Ali Smith

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“Children need continuity as they grow and learn.”
“The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Unionâ€™s fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia,”

Source : "Crisis in Ukraine is ‘all EU’s fault’ – France’s Marine Le Pen". www.rt.com. September 6, 2014.
“I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.”
“For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.”

Source : "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.
“And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.”

Source : Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr
“We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.”
“I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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