"When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!"

-- Roald Dahl

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“The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. It's made me more likely to put things up quickly and treat it more like a magazine instead of a novel.”
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.”
“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.”
“I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.”
“It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.”
“I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

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