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You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#bigger #brooks #got #into #lot

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#bradley #complete #complete freedom #deadline #forerunner

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#berkeley #bishop #destroyed #experienced #fate

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything. ↗

— Terry Southern

#credit #directors #everything #film #including

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody! ↗

— Ralph Stanley

#brothers #i #i do #listen #more

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#fame #fate #harry-potter #innocence #secret

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dudley-dursley #food #uncle-vernon #diet

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#dear #dear friend #death #deeply #dudley

I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#bailey #circus #fan #huge #i