"I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do."

-- Anita Shreve

#Drinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Body Quotes

“Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”

Source : Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.66, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“You need a story to displace a story.”
“Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”
“I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.”
“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”
“I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.”

Source : "Lady Archer defends her man". Mary Archer's speech on Lord Archer's perjury trial at the witness box at the Old Bailey in London, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2001.

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