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		Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jane Austen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Winning is everything in Hollywood. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yehuda Amichai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jennifer Konner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Len Wein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jane Austen