"I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things - what are they called? - hamsters: all die like flies. So there's no point avoiding it."

-- Raymond Briggs

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“As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.”
“I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the long run, everything is a toaster.”
“In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.”
“As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!”
“it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.”

Source : Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”
“Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.”

Source : "Mulroney and Amazing: A Conversation with Dermot Mulroney". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.
“There is a new face to hunger today. Many of the people who come to food pantries and soup kitchens are people who never thought they would need help - people who were once part of the middle class and are now unemployed or underemployed - people who are struggling to get by from day to day and week to week.”

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