No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Geoffrey Rush

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Thomas L. Masson

Croatia is an amazing place.

Jean Reno

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Harold Wilson

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Le Corbusier

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Leifer

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

Padma Lakshmi

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