I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact. -Chesty Puller

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Realism can break a writer's heart.

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. -Maya Angelou

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I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

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I bend, but I do not break.

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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

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Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

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For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them. - Aneurin Barnard

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I've always been mad about cats.

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