"What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?"

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Source : Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.365, Head of Zeus

Colleen McCullough

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“In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.”

Source : "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.
“I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.”

Source : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.”
“Conquer your mind and conquer the world.”
“I've succeeded a lot but there's still so much to do.”

Source : "Love & Hip Hop’s Erica Mena Goes ‘Underneath It All’". Interview with Thomas C. Burrell, www.parlemag.com. April 30, 2013.
“It's definitely hard for me watching myself on screen, it's very uncomfortable, but it's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you get used to it. When I first got out I was like, I can't look at all, it makes me sick to my stomach.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com
“Facebook is fantastic because it gives me contact with my fans, but I feel like it's not about the music anymore - it's about how many friends you have on Facebook and your Instagram pictures. I hate that. I feel so bad for the talented new bands that are working so hard, and they have to fight with these monsters where it's all about the appearance. I don't want to be a part of that - going to a festival and taking a selfie on stage. I feel like it's such bad publicity for music and for true artists, and I'll try to fight as hard as I can to not be like that.”
“I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.”

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