"No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice."

-- Liam Neeson

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“People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.”
“When you are in love with a man or a woman, the love you feel does not come from him or her; it is the love flowing from you own heart that you feel. Your partner is simply giving you an excuse to love. Love is always found flowing in your heart, not in your family, lover, career or art.”
“I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.”
“I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.”

Source : "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.
“I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.”
“This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “Marque and Reprisal”, p.37, Del Rey
“There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.”
“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”

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