"Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become."

-- Lillian Hellman

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“It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.”
“I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.”
“It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”
“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2015). “Symmetry”, p.5, Princeton University Press
“There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.”
“Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.”
“We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.”

Source : "Electric Current Events: Middle East Revolutions and the Need to Revolutionize American Clean Energy" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.
“I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.”

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