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Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. Benito Mussolini
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish. Alice Munro
Anne Lamott quote: "Laughter is carbonated holiness."
Laughter is carbonated holiness. Anne Lamott
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. Octavia Butler
But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly imposed transformations, which favored the economy, the state, and the military at the expense of the religious spirit and national life. And along with this lopsided Petrine enlightenment, Russia felt the first whiff of secularism; its subtle poisons permeated the educated classes in the course of the 19th century and opened the path to Marxism. By the... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For the fact is thatneither the grammarian nor any other person of skill ever makes a mistakein so far as he is what his name implies; they none of them err unlesstheir skill fails them, and then they cease to be skilled artists. Noartist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies; though he is commonly said to err. Plato
Nastassja Kinski quote: "Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you..."
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind. Nastassja Kinski
Virginia Woolf quote: "He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged..."
He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. Virginia Woolf
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. Ian Mckellen
Grace is the first and last moving cause of salvation; and faith, essential as it is, is only an important part of the machinery which grace employs. We are saved 'through faith,' but salvation is 'by grace'. Charles Spurgeon
Most of my supporters are people who actually know me. I just continue to do the best I can and I don't bother to try and respond to every little bit because the best response is just to keep on doing what you think is right. Maurice Strong
Jonathan Franzen quote: "I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until..."
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. Jonathan Franzen
Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig. John Steinbeck
On the other hand I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country - I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11. Sibel Edmonds
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. Gene Tierney