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I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family. ↗

— Tom Felton

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I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door. ↗

— Tom Felton

#debt #door #eight #had #horrible

I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it. ↗

— Tom Felton

#enjoy #films #hate #i #light

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. ↗

— Robert Caro

#feel #higher #life #like #outside

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. ↗

— Robert Caro

#believe #clear #deepest #highest #history

Mademoiselle De Lafontaine – in right of her father, who was a German, assumed to be psychological, metaphysical and something of a mystic – now declared that when the moon shone with a light so intense it was well known that it indicated a special spiritual activity. The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people; it had marvelous physical influences connected with life. Mademoiselle related that here cousin, who was mate of a merchant ship, having taken a nap on deck on such a night, lying on his back, with his face full in the light of the moon, had wakened, after a dream of an old woman clawing him by the cheek, with his features horribly drawn to one side; and his countenance had never quite recovered its equilibrium. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#moon #nightmare #dreams

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#knowledge #leads #literary #nothing #straight

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling. ↗

— Robert Caro

#getting #know #physical #real #real feeling

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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