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“There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week...Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation”
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“What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
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“But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.”
Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010. 
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“When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.”
Source : "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.
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“When I cook, my brain stops completely.”
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“...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.”
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“Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.”
Source : Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press
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“Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.”
