"Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion."

-- Antonia Fraser

#Writing Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Maine Quotes

“But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.”
“The choices weâ€™re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we canâ€™t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and itâ€™s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.”
“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.”

Source : "Ben Mendelsohn: from Erinsborough to Hollywood via Gotham" by Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.
“It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.”
“We come to God by love and not by navigation.”
“"I accept your condemnation," I said.”
“In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.”
“I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.”

Source : Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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