"Why be timid? Death is coming."

--

Simon Amstell

“Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.”
“I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love beautiful shoes and jewellery. But the erotic work I do is too daring and provocative for a fashion magazine. It's more fun, and if you have the right girl who likes it, more exciting, too. It's fashion photography, but with fewer clothes.”

Source : "Photographer Ellen von Unwerth's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2009.
“Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own people. But they are the ones that prevail because they have the economic power, the political power and the military power.”
“The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.”

Source : "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". The Guardian live Q&A, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.
“I think to be an amazing actress, you have to be present, you have to be in the moment and not thinking about other things.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.”
“The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.”
“It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.”

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