"America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism."

-- Richard Ford

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“Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.”
“They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.”
“Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.”
“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.”
“Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.”
“The great person never loses a childlike spirit.”
“In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.”

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