"Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes."

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Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.163, Random House

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Disease Quotes

“Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.”
“Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.”

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“He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
“I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.”
“Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.”
“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to . . . and then some!”

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