"Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market."

-- Eric Hobsbawm

#Essentials Quotes #Raw Materials Quotes #Pakistan Quotes

“I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.”
“I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.”
“We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.”

Source : "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.
“We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.”

Source : Kass Morgan (2014). “Day 21: The 100 Book Two”, p.205, Hachette UK
“Life's been nothing but paperwork.”
“Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.”
“Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.”
“My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.”

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