"Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics."

-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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“To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.”

Source : "The myth of order" by Ellen Ullman, www.wired.com. April 1, 1999.
“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”

Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”
“I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.”

Source : "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.
“When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.”
“I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.”
“It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2013). “Loyalties”, p.331, Random House
“You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.”
“I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.”

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