Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? ~Anna Kournikova
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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Do not do what you will have to find an excuse for. ~Proverb
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Recognise.

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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