Ma Jian If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. – Ma Jian Constraint Quotes Country Quotes Exile Quotes Internal Quotes Sense Quotes Writer Quotes I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Henry Adams I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics. – Henry Adams
Mark Pincus I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring. – Mark Pincus
A Philip RandolphHistory I don’t ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. – A Philip Randolph
Steve Backshall A lot of people think it’s insane to swim out in blue water with a great white shark, but my experience tells me I can do it safely. Other people might consider it mad, granted, but then I might think what they do is mad. – Steve Backshall
Olivia Colman I used to want to be in ‘Downton’ because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did ‘The Suspicions of Mr Whicher’ and had to wear one of those frocks and… I didn’t feel very comfortable. – Olivia Colman
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