"We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.”

Source : "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.
“Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.”
“The business of America is business.”
“I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.”
“The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.”

Source : "Old master is still spinning" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.
“The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo's father had stepped into a dark room, and on a white screen he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. Father said he had never experienced anything like it. It had been like seeing his dreams in the middle of the day.”
“I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.”
“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”

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