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“I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.”
Source : Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. November 5, 2002.
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“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!”
Source : A Man for All Seasons act 2 (1960). Ellipsis in original text. See Bible 278
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“Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.”
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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
Source : FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 01, 2015
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“I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.”
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“I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.”
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“Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.”
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“Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.”