"It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else."

-- Robert Harris

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“When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.”
“I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.”
“I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.”

Source : "Jimmi Simpson Tackles Sorkin's Farnsworth". Interview with James Sims, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2007.
“A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.”
“Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.”

Source : "Paulsen willing to 'look at anything' to end government shutdown". Interview with Kevin Diaz, www.startribune.com. October 1, 2013.
“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”
“I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.”

Source : Islamica Magazine Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. July 2, 2006.
“I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com

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