"If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it."

-- Beverly Cleary

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“Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.”
“In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press â€” because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.”
“I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.”
“I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.”
“I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.”
“If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?”
“Sometimes you're famous before you're good.”

Source : "Nikita Infiltrates New York" by Scott Collura, www.ign.com. October 10, 2010.
“I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe that this view is in the main correct, because so many phenomena can thus be grouped end explained.”

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