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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good

candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
Griffin Dunne

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Mary Astell

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
Robert Caro

There are great characters on television.
Penelope Ann Miller

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
Enya

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
Vidal Sassoon

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!
Janel Parrish

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
Lata Mangeshkar

If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.
Roone Arledge

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