"[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize."

-- Bernice Rubens

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“I allow my intuition to lead my path.”
“I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.”

Source : "I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?" by Ellen Page, www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2010.
“Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.”
“Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.”
“Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.”
“But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.”
“Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!”

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