"I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much."

-- Geraldine Chaplin

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“There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 348, 1895.
“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”

Source : Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.7, Canongate Books
“In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly. I mean, we got back from America and Blur had made The Great Escape, which I thought was a really, truly awful album - so cheesy, like a parody of Parklife, but without the balls or the intellect. And Oasis were enormous and I always found them incredibly dreary. There was this uncritical reverence surrounding the whole thing”

Source : "Elastica Limits". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.
“I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.”
“My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.”
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
“I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.”
“There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.”

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