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“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
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“I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.”
Source : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
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“I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.”
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“I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.”
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“I'm inspired by people who are really deliberate and careful with their lives, and people who are kind. And of course I'm inspired by people who work hard and don't complain about it. I myself work hard but sometimes, I admit, I do complain.”
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“You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.”
Source : Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2009. 
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“I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said 'There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.'”
Source : "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.
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“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.”
Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
