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		I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				August Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ma Jun 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ma Jian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. G. Ballard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I tried to play rugby but was never very good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Fiennes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Lover 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Braff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlo Ratti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gaspard Ulliel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abu Bakr 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Evans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Reagan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Herbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manuel Puig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tawni O'Dell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Inbee Park 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Bachman 
			 
			
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		Lights of the world, and stars of human race. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Cowper 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's not important, the relationship between the coaches. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Antonio Conte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”) 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yevgeny Zamyatin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				August Wilson