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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."
Saint Jerome
(??/??/0347 09/30/0420)
Italian religious person
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
Jalal ud-Din Rumi
(09/30/1207 12/17/1273)
Ghurid (now Afghanistan) region mystic and poet
"Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."
Michael Powell
(09/30/1905 02/19/1990)
US director
"It's all right for a fellow to grow peanuts ... but people ought not to think like them. I don't know whether the man is sick, or just a plain fool."
Lester Maddox
(09/30/1915 06/25/2003)
US governor (GA)
, on Jimmy Carter
"I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved, and decorative."
Deborah Kerr
(09/30/1921 10/16/2007)
Scottish actor
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
Truman Capote
(09/30/1924 08/25/1984)
US writer
"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents."
Elie Wiesel
(09/30/1928 )
Roumanian-US Nobel writer
"There is more credit in being abused by fools than praised by rogues."
F. E. Smith
(07/12/1872 09/30/1930)
English statesman
"I dress for women, and undress for men. "
Angie Dickinson
(09/30/1931 )
US actor
"There is nothing about my career that is an accident."
Marc "T Rex" Bolan
(09/30/1947 09/16/1977)
English singer
"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
James Dean
(02/08/1931 09/30/1955)
US actor
"I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing."
Eric Stoltz
(09/30/1961 )
US actor
"I usually say that I don't eat anything with a face or arse (which is why I never get quoted anywhere)..."
Stacey Kettner
(09/30/1967 )
Expat-US writer, criminal-law specialist, and friend of the quotekeeper
"Sting! I mean, come onwho doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeth, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday."
Jenna Elfman
(09/30/1971 )
US actor
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
Simone Signoret
(03/25/1921 09/30/1985)
German actor
"This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinationg century of freaks... but nobody loved it."
Alfred Bester
(12/18/1913 09/30/1987)
US writer
"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."
Virgil Thomson
(11/25/1896 09/30/1989)
US composer
"But bombs are unbelievable until they actually fall."
Patrick White
(05/28/1912 09/30/1990)
Australian writer
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