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“I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.”
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“Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.”
Source : "Meet Clint Eastwood's Gorgeous Son Scott" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. September 18, 2013.
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“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
Source : William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”
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“Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do more. Copy many well-said things. Pierce them together. Assimilate them. Make the process of reading them a way to form the mind and shape the soul. As anthologies can never be complete, we will never exhaust the ways quotations can enrich our lives.”
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“One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.”
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“There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.”
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“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.”
Source : FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Nov 08, 2016
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“You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.”
Source : Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.197, Penguin