"When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it."

-- Marlene Dietrich

“You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.”
“For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.”

Source : "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.
“It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.”

Source : "Climate change sceptics are 'headless chickens', says Prince Charles" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2014.
“I think it'll take a while to adjust, but when you think about just the creativity of people and what they're capable of and the sort of aspirations and dreams that they have, the idea that they're not capable of anything more than sort of performing these automatable clerical tasks, I don't believe that for a second.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.”

Source : Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.192, Random House
“Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.”
“What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character - and that's what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive.”

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