"What should a good childrenâ€™s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good."

-- Astrid Lindgren

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“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.”
“The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.”

Source : Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.
“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
“It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.”

Source : "Sean Astin Talks MOM'S NIGHT OUT, Being in a Good, Clean Comedy, Guillermo del Toro's THE STRAIN, Being Game for a GOONIES Sequel, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2014.
“You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.”
“The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.”
“The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.”

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