"Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“I can say it's true that if I want to understand a certain minority, I need to meet them and get to know them.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”

Source : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.197, Canongate Books
“You can turn a giant into a mouse just by getting him fatigued. That was my whole game plan.”
“The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure thatâ€™s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't think intimidated is the word. I definitely get excited by it. I don't want to let anybody down. I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100 percent perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.”
“Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.”

Source : "Davos: Quiet Optimism Rises, Angelina Who?, and a Bonus to Giving Idea" by Cameron Sinclair, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2009.
“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
“You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.”

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