"I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses."

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Source : "Helen Mirren, ‘Hitchcock’ Star, On Meeting Alfred Hitchcock: ‘I Was Arrogant & Ignorant’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

Helen Mirren

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“The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market.”
“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin
“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014
“My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.”
“Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.”
“The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.”

Source : "California files appeal to have block on foie gras ban overturned". www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2015.
“From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.”

Source : "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.
“I find a lot of people struggling in their lives because they feel like it was expected they do a certain thing or act a certain way and not follow what their gut is telling them to do.”

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