"The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth."

-- Augustus William Hare

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“I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.”
“For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of global extinctions. But always there are people who know how to gather the essence of life and hold it safely, protect it and nurture it until the next seeding.”
“Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.”
“As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.”
“In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”
“You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”
“I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.”
“Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.”

Source : "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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