"He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel."

-- Horace

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“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”
“Golf always makes me so damned angry.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“Thereâ€™s one thing thatâ€™s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has to resign. He doesnâ€™t have to resign. You take all the supports out from under him; he falls. No matter what he wants to do. This is the distinction in the analyses between nonviolent coercion in which he has to resign, but heâ€™s forced into it, and disintegration when the regime simply falls apart. Thereâ€™s nobody left with enough power to resign.”
“Life was mostly made up of things you couldnâ€™t control, full of surprises, and they werenâ€™t always good. Life wasnâ€™t what you made it. You were what life made you.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.208, Hachette UK
“I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.”
“I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together.”
“Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.”
“The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.”

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