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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#according #am #degree #destinations #i

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#decided #devote #faintest #find #finding

It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#different #different world #doing #growing #growing up

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#consider #develop #full #give #habit

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#choose #facts #french #french people #hiding

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#capacity #evil #good #let us #man

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#adding #experience #other #own #people

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#i #kept #life #my life #shampoo