"Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?"

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Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

Mary Norris

#Cereal Quotes #Alphabet Quotes #Soup Quotes

“I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important”
“I have a really great family, and when Im not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I dont get crazy.”
“I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.”
“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
“You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.”
“When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.”
“I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.”
“Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.”

Source : Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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