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“The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.”
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“I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture”, p.3, Macmillan
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“In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day.†“When did he finally stop?†I asked. “Yesterday.”
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“I prefer to discover new talent by holding open auditions.”
Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.
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“I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy”
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“I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.”
Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
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“No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.”
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“Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.”
Source : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.10