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		As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jay Parini 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taslima Nasrin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yotam Ottolenghi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Lippmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orison Swett Marden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. G. Wells 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Brunetti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Bilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm Gladwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young men working in a shipyard. Audiences may prefer to see a show that allows them to forget about their worries for an evening. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Tucker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Baz Luhrmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zebulon Pike 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Craig Sager 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that the women's magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on - they're thinking, 'Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mary Roach 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You are dealing with a different type of customer. If they are frequent visitors, they often have heightened expectations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chris Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called 'the significant trifle' - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				I. F. Stone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jay Parini