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Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

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• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

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• I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

  

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• One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

  

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• It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

  

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• The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

  

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• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

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• I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.

  

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• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  

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• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

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• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

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• The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!

  

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• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

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• Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessèd face

  

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• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  

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• The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.

  

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• Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

  

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• Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.

  

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• The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.

  

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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  

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• I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.

  

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• I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

  

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• Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.

  

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• Bacon's Adam is a medieval mystic and Milton's a trade union organizer. (p. 214)

  

  Marshall McLuhan