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“On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.”
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“In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.”
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“The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.”
Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
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“In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.”
Source : "Actor Laura Vandervoort: Being inspired to challenge yourself and female empowerment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”
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“When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publicatio n was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.”
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“Stern is the visage of necessity.”