"The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle."

-- Marvin Shanken

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“Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.”
“Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.”

Source : "Brendan Dooling is passionate about everything he works on". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.”
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.”
“When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.”
“I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 8, 2012.
“Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.”

Source : 77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.
“I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”

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