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• Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'

  Paul Weller

  Space, Guy, Why Not

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• If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

  David Mamet

  Stories, Made, Certain

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

  David Mamet

  Technique, Purpose, Unconscious

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.

  Ray Lewis

  Fighting, Thinking, Light

  "Hungry for another title, Ravens' Lewis watches diet". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 15, 2012.

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Roots

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.95, Routledge

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• A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"

  Josh McDowell

  People, Choices, Firsts

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• How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Blow, Secret

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Past, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.155, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Past, Worry, Wickedness

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.542, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Way

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

  William Carlos Williams

  Men, Life Is, Defeated

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• I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  School, Play, Tennis

  "Lleyton Hewitt: Top Spin Intreview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 20, 2003.

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• If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Strong, Children

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• Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

  Ralph Ellison

  Lying, Humanity, Littles

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• If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

  Meg Cabot

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  Maeve Binchy

  Kings, Journey, Airports

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• Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

  Maeve Binchy

  Ordinary, Looks, Knows

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• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  Maeve Binchy

  Moving, Book, Given

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• If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.

  Maeve Binchy

  Sports, Feel Better, Men

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• Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

  Maeve Binchy

  Doctors, Should Have, Different

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• Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

  Maeve Binchy

  Successful, Cake, Add

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• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  Maeve Binchy

  Country, Book, Hero

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• I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

  Maeve Binchy

  Girl, Men, Female

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