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		There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erica Jong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Let's judge a man on what he's done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pardis Sabeti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haley Bennett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yayoi Kusama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Boone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Wake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Famke Janssen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Someone has to stand up for wimps. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Ehrenreich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. O. Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. R. R. Tolkien 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Hamilton Finlay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. F. K. Fisher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dexter Holland 
			 
			
				The Offspring  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ali Liebegott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mario Monti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erica Jong