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“Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.”
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“There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.”
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“For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.”
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“Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.”
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“Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.”
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“Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.”
Source : "Portrait of the artist: Nick Park, film-maker". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2009.
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“I don't ever take anything for granted.”
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“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.”
Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1867). “On the Study of Words Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training-school, Winchester by Richard Chenevix Trench”, p.24