"I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere."

-- Alberto Manguel

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“There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.”
“You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the filmâ€”and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep levelâ€”but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.”
“I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?”
“I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.”
“A lot of times the movies I think are the funniest are dramas. I feel like dramas are so much funnier because they're actually capturing human beings. Humans are so weird and clumsy, and that, to me, often makes me laugh more.”
“One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.”
“The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.”
“If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.”

Source : Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.67, Bethany House

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