Thomas Middleton was born in London in April 1580 and baptised on 18th April. Middleton was aged only five when his father died. His mother remarried but this unfortunately fell apart into a fifteen year legal dispute regarding the inheritance due Thomas and his younger sister. By the time he left Oxford, at the turn of the Century, Middleton had and published Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satirese which was denounced by the Archbishop of Canterbury and publicly burned. In the early years of the 17th century, Middleton wrote topical pamphlets. One - Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets was reprinted several times and the subject of a parliamentary inquiry. These early years writing plays continued to attract controversy. His writing partnership with Thomas Dekker brought him into conflict with Ben Jonson and George Chapman in the so-called War of the Theatres. His finest work with Dekker was undoubtedly The Roaring Girl, a biography of the notorious Mary Frith. In the 1610s, Middleton began another playwriting partnership, this time with the actor William Rowley, producing another slew of plays including Wit at Several Weapons and A Fair Quarrel. The ever adaptable Middleton seemed at ease working with others or by himself. His solo writing credits include the comic masterpiece, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, in 1613. In 1620 he was officially appointed as chronologer of the City of London, a post he held until his death. The 1620s saw the production of his and Rowley's tragedy, and continual favourite, The Changeling, and of several other tragicomedies. However in 1624, he reached a peak of notoriety when his dramatic allegory A Game at Chess was staged by the King's Men. Though Middleton's approach was strongly patriotic, the Privy Council silenced the play after only nine performances at the Globe theatre, having received a complaint from the Spanish ambassador. What happened next is a mystery. It is the last play recorded as having being written by Middleton. Thomas Middleton died at his home at Newington Butts in Southwark in the summer of 1627, and was buried on July 4th, in St Mary's churchyard which today survives as a public park in Elephant and Castle.

James Shirley was born in London in September 1596. His education was through a collection of England's finest establishments: Merchant Taylors' School, London, St John's College, Oxford, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in approximately 1618. He first published in 1618, a poem entitled Echo, or the Unfortunate Lovers. As with many artists of this period full details of his life and career are not recorded. Sources say that after graduating he became "e;a minister of God's word in or near St Albans."e; A conversion to the Catholic faith enabled him to become master of St Albans School from 1623-25. He wrote his first play, Love Tricks, or the School of Complement, which was licensed on February 10th, 1625. From the given date it would seem he wrote this whilst at St Albans but, after its production, he moved to London and to live in Gray's Inn. For the next two decades, he would write prolifically and with great quality, across a spectrum of thirty plays; through tragedies and comedies to tragicomedies as well as several books of poetry. Unfortunately, his talents were left to wither when Parliament passed the Puritan edict in 1642, forbidding all stage plays and closing the theatres. Most of his early plays were performed by Queen Henrietta's Men, the acting company for which Shirley was engaged as house dramatist. Shirley's sympathies lay with the King in battles with Parliament and he received marks of special favor from the Queen. He made a bitter attack on William Prynne, who had attacked the stage in Histriomastix, and, when in 1634 a special masque was presented at Whitehall by the gentlemen of the Inns of Court as a practical reply to Prynne, Shirley wrote the text-The Triumph of Peace. Shirley spent the years 1636 to 1640 in Ireland, under the patronage of the Earl of Kildare. Several of his plays were produced by his friend John Ogilby in Dublin in the first ever constructed Irish theatre; The Werburgh Street Theatre. During his years in Dublin he wrote The Doubtful Heir, The Royal Master, The Constant Maid, and St. Patrick for Ireland. In his absence from London, Queen Henrietta's Men sold off a dozen of his plays to the stationers, who naturally, enough published them. When Shirley returned to London in 1640, he finished with the Queen Henrietta's company and his final plays in London were acted by the King's Men. On the outbreak of the English Civil War Shirley served with the Earl of Newcastle. However when the King's fortunes began to decline he returned to London. There his friend Thomas Stanley gave him help and thereafter Shirley supported himself in the main by teaching and publishing some educational works under the Commonwealth. In addition to these he published during the period of dramatic eclipse four small volumes of poems and plays, in 1646, 1653, 1655, and 1659. It is said that he was "e;a drudge"e; for John Ogilby in his translations of Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, and survived into the reign of Charles II, but, though some of his comedies were revived, his days as a playwright were over. His death, at age seventy, along with that of his wife, in 1666, is described as one of fright and exposure due to the Great Fire of London which had raged through parts of London from September 2nd to the 5th. He was buried at St Giles in the Fields, in London, on October 29th, 1666.

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look at the works of Edwin Arlington Robinson who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry three times including the very first ever awarded.

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel bedroom in what is now Times Square, New York. Much of his childhood was spent in the comfort of books at boarding schools whilst his actor father was on the road and his Mother contended with her own demons. He spent only a year at University - Princeton - and various reasons have been given for his departure. However whatever his background and education denied or added to his development it is agreed amongst all that he was a playwright of the first rank and possibly America's greatest. His introduction of realism into American drama was instrumental in its development and paved a path for many talents thereafter. Of course his winning of both the Pulitzer Prize (4 times) and the Nobel Prize are indicative of his status. His more famous and later works do side with the disillusionment and personal tragedy of those on the fringes of society but continue to build upon ideas and structures he incorporated in his early one act plays. Eugene O'Neill suffered from various health problems, mainly depression and alcoholism. In the last decade he also faced a Parkinson's like tremor in his hands which made writing increasingly difficult. But out of such difficulties came plays of the calibre of The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Eugene O'Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. As he was dying, he whispered his last words: "e;I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room."e;

The 2012 presidential election campaign is well under way when Barack Obama succumbs to a sudden heart attack. Vice-president Biden is sworn in as President and the Democratic Party recalls its convention. Jesse Jackson makes a powerful speech proposing that the party adopt Michelle Obama as its candidate. What happens next?

The Storm Begins. Seeing the future: blessing or curse? For Anne Fincastle, only the number of survivors changes. Few or none. Anne knows the truth. In her heart, her mind, her bones. Only Evan Griffith believes. Can they make a difference for humanity, together? Book One of the Storms of Future Past Series. An excerpt from Dreaming the Storm: Prophets have risen up many times through the ages, claiming to have the gift of seeing the future. Whether certain ones could or not is a debate for another day. What’s not debatable is the most common response by society: to condemn them as insane, with often horrific results. The screen went blank for a second, and Anne wiped her eyes, hoping the horrible movie was over. She didn’t ever want to come back to this library again. Then she saw dots slowly lighting up and glowing, coming to life scattered around the screen. There weren’t very many, not even twenty of them. Lines formed on the screen, and after a second Anne realized those were the lines of the continents. The dots were on the land. She could see a few on each continent, and only five in all of North America. Her fear drew back a little as her curiosity started to recover. What was she looking at? They weren’t near any of the cities she knew. “What is it?” she whispered. The lines of the continents faded in the middle, right around the Atlantic ocean, and words floated to the surface. Pale blue words. Remaining Human Population.

"I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, here and here, I am still a free woman."During a period of four hundred years, European slave traders ferried some 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. In the Americas, teaching a slave to read and write was a criminal offense. When the last slaves gained their freedom in Brazil, barely a thousand of them were literate. Hardly any stories of the enslaved and transported Africans have survived.This novel is an attempt to recreate just one of those stories, one story of a possible 12 million or more.Lawrence Hill created another in The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows my Name in the U.S.) and, more recently, Yaa Gyasi has done the same in Homegoing. Ama occupies center stage throughout this novel. As the story opens, she is sixteen. Distant drums announce the death of her grandfather. Her family departs to attend the funeral, leaving her alone to tend her ailing baby brother. It is 1775. Asante has conquered its northern neighbor and exacted an annual tribute of 500 slaves. The ruler of Dagbon dispatches a raiding party into the lands of the neighboring Bekpokpam. They capture Ama. That night, her lover, Itsho, leads an attack on the raiders’ camp. The rescue bid fails. Sent to collect water from a stream, Ama comes across Itsho’s mangled corpse. For the rest of her life she will call upon his spirit in time of need. In Kumase, the Asante capital, Ama is given as a gift to the Queen-mother. When the adolescent monarch, Osei Kwame, conceives a passion for her, the regents dispatch her to the coast for sale to the Dutch at Elmina Castle. There the governor, Pieter de Bruyn, selects her as his concubine, dressing her in the elegant clothes of his late Dutch wife and instructing the obese chaplain to teach her to read and write English. De Bruyn plans to marry Ama and take her with him to Europe. He makes a last trip to the Dutch coastal outstations and returns infected with yellow fever. On his death, his successor rapes Ama and sends her back to the female dungeon. Traumatized, her mind goes blank. She comes to her senses in the canoe which takes her and other women out to the slave ship, The Love of Liberty. Before the ship leaves the coast of Africa, Ama instigates a slave rebellion. It fails and a brutal whipping leaves her blind in one eye. The ship is becalmed in mid-Atlantic. Then a fierce storm cripples it and drives it into the port of Salvador, capital of Brazil. Ama finds herself working in the fields and the mill on a sugar estate. She is absorbed into slave society and begins to adapt, learning Portuguese. Years pass. Ama is now totally blind. Clutching the cloth which is her only material link with Africa, she reminisces, dozes, falls asleep. A short epilogue brings the story up to date. The consequences of the slave trade and slavery are still with us. Brazilians of African descent remain entrenched in the lower reaches of society, enmeshed in poverty. “This is story telling on a grand scale,” writes Tony Sim?es da Silva. “In Ama, Herbstein creates a work of literature that celebrates the resilience of human beings while denouncing the inscrutable nature of their cruelty. By focusing on the brutalization of Ama's body, and on the psychological scars of her experiences, Herbstein dramatizes the collective trauma of slavery through the story of a single African woman. Ama echoes the views of writers, historians and philosophers of the African diaspora who have argued that the phenomenon of slavery is inextricable from the deepest foundations of contemporary western civilization.” Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.

Do you dream of discovering your purpose, but have no idea where to start? Here’s a step-by-step, proven process to unveil your passions and discover your innate talents to fast-track your ideal career. *FREE 100+ page worksheet booklet inside.* This book will take you on a fun interactive journey of self-discovery to clarify your purpose and passions in life. Learn from award-winning author, Tikiri, who used the techniques in here to go from being an immigrant teen with $20 in her pocket to managing multi-million-dollar projects and traveling the world. You'll discover how to: - Uncover the passions you hold within you. - Discover your innate talents and unique skills. - Identify the value you can give the world, so you make a living doing what you love. And much more!In these pages, you will read a story, and that story will be yours. Your Rebel Dreams?is a life-changing workbook with down-to-earth advice, inspiring quotes and plenty of space for you to write your answers. If you’d like to go on an adventure where you get to explore the amazing things you're meant to do, pick up?Your Rebel Dreams?today! ___________________ The Rebel Diva Series Your Rebel Dreams?– How to discover your purpose and power up your life. Your Rebel Plans?- How to create a masterplan for your career change. Your Rebel Life –?Easy habit hacks to transform the most important pillars of your life. Bust Your Fears - Three easy tools to conquer your fears and upgrade your career and life. The Rebel Diva book series is for the busy working woman who's juggling everything and wishes life had more to give her. Don't just read self-help. Get the Rebel Diva guides that will take you by the hand and show you step-by-step how to create your dream life.

A steamy five-book set from USA Today bestseller Ember Casey. Includes an exclusive extended series epilogue!?Meet the Fontaines: Hollywood royalty. L.A.'s most notorious bad boys. Permanent stars of the tabloids. And the wickedest, most devilish lovers around...This set includes the complete Fontaines series plus special bonuses!THE SWEET TASTE OF SIN (BOOK 1): To the rest of the world, Dante Fontaine is the ridiculously attractive oldest son of the Fontaine family. To Ashlyn? He’s the guy who made her swear off men forever. She just wants to run her bakery, heal her broken heart, and forget him. Buy Dante has other plans, and this time, he has no intention of letting her go…THE LIES BETWEEN THE LINES (BOOK 2): Emilia Torres has everything she’s ever wanted. After years of struggling to become an actress, she’s finally caught her big break—a part opposite the hottest star in Hollywood, the gorgeous and charming Luca Fontaine. But her biggest role might be the one she plays off-screen, where she and Luca pretend to be in love. The rules for their relationship are simple: in front of the paparazzi, they play the perfect Hollywood couple. In private, their contract states that all feelings—and sex—are absolutely forbidden. But what if the truth becomes hotter than the lies?THE MYSTERY OF YOU (BOOK 3): When Edie Marshall meets a mysterious—and drop-dead gorgeous—man in the woods just outside her small town, she has no idea that he’s actually Rafe Fontaine, certified bad boy and black sheep of the Fontaine family. And she definitely has no idea that their brief, passionate encounter will lead to her getting pregnant. Can she trust her heart—and her baby—to Hollywood’s hottest bad boy?THE THRILL OF TEMPTATION (BOOK 4): Maggie Blankenship is a hot mess—broke, unemployed, and down on her luck. So when she’s offered the chance to fill in as an extra in a movie, she wonders if her luck is changing. It turns out that the movie is being directed by Orlando Fontaine—the intense and mysterious youngest brother of the Fontaine family. Sparks (and underwear) fly between the pair of them from the start, but Orlando has a strict no-fraternizing policy on his sets. As the heat builds between Maggie and Orlando, only one question remains—what’s the cost of giving in to temptation?Plus TWO special bonuses:THE SECRET TO SEDUCTION (full-length prequel): Felicia Liddle has eight days to seduce one of the notorious Fontaine brothers. The only problem? Historically speaking, Felicia's way more likely to put her foot in her mouth (or generally make an idiot of herself) than charm the pants off of anyone. Enter Roman Everet: media mogul (read: billionaire), insanely sexy, and--oh yeah--Felicia's new boss. He might hold the fate of her job in his hands, but he's more than willing to help her become an expert in seduction...And an Extended Bonus Epilogue!

The year is 1914?and the world is in turmoil. In Europe, the Great War is raging. In Asia, fierce insurgencies are in progress against the colonial powers of Europe. In Mexico, a bloody revolution is ripping that nation to shreds and threatening to spill over into Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Billy Battles and his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber, have managed to live an uncommonly sedate life for almost ten years. But, with one telephone call their tranquil world is shattered. Katharina and Billy set off on a succession of wild adventures that will alter their lives for all time. Their new and violent world is one brimming with miscreants, secret agents, treachery, and tragedy. But most importantly,?it triggers Billy's mysterious decades-long disappearance. Where is he? What happened? The answers are in The Lost Years of Billy Battles, Book 3of the award-winning Finding Billy Battles trilogy

The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur's newest stop-motion animated film. Through the course of several in-depth interviews with film critic Lauren Wilford, writer and director Wes Anderson shares the story behind Isle of Dogs's conception and production, and Anderson and his collaborators reveal entertaining anecdotes about the making of the film, their sources of inspiration, the ins and outs of stop-motion animation, and many other insights into their moviemaking process. Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs, concept artwork, and hand-written notes and storyboards accompany the text. The book also features an introduction by critics and collaborators Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, and a foreword by critic Matt Zoller Seitz. The fourth volume of the New York Times bestselling Wes Anderson Collection, Isle of Dogs stays true to the series with its rich design and colorful illustrations, capturing Anderson's signature aesthetic vision and bringing the series's definitive study of Anderson's filmography up to date.Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture. The film features the voices of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, F. Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, Yoko Ono, Mari Natsuko, Harvey Keitel, Courtney B. Vance, Ken Watanabe, Scarlett Johnasson, Fisher Stevens, Nijiro Murakami, and Liev Schreiber.

A woman wracked with grief. A man with a troubled past. Will trust build a bridge between them or will it be destroyed by dark secrets? Shattered by her daughter's death and tormented by her husband's infidelity, Emma Grayson seeks refuge in solitude. As she slowly re-enters the real world, she takes on work at the sprawling Melton Estate’s stables. Initially distracted by her painful healing process, she realizes that the property’s handsome manager carries his own sadness… When Emma is thrown from her horse and badly injured, Trent provides tender, selfless care. She doesn’t want to appear ungrateful for the lonely ex-RAF man’s support, but her anxiety keeps her silent. After his secretive past surfaces and events take a dramatic turn at the estate, she can't help but feel violently unsaddled all over again. Will Emma ever find inner peace and love again, or is she destined to live with only heartache and pain? A Single Step is the first book in the Grayson Trilogy, a dark romantic suspense series. If you like wounded characters, slow-building romance, and page-turning twists, then you'll love Georgia Rose’s powerful novel. Download A Single Step to uncover a heart breaking tale today!

Pancho Finds A Home is about a little dog who wanders into a small Mexican village that is preparing for a feast. He befriends a burro, hen and goat and prepares a special surprise for them.

A k?tet egy sajátos életutat bejárt embert mutat be, aki harminc év, bányában végzett munka után d?nt?tt úgy, hogy életét nagy szerelmének, a festészetnek szenteli. ?gy érezte, b?n lenne Isten adta tehetségét veszni hagyni, és nem hívni fel az emberek figyelmét az olykor rejt?zk?d?, máskor mulandó szépre rohanó világunkban. Ebben az érzésben osztozhat az album olvasója, aki végignézi Sziklai Károly festményeit és elolvassa Jenes Gyula portréját a naiv fest?r?l.

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Mennyi ideig tart ki a Camino varázsa? Meddig maradhat valaki zarándok egy nagyvárosban? Ha megkérdezték, azt mondtam: ?r?kre! Pedig egyre nyilvánvalóbbá vált, hogy ez nem igaz. Tudtam, hogy rossz d?ntést hoztam. Addigra azonban már kés? volt, újra a régi lendülettel tepertem a mókuskerékben. Sejtettem, hogy a testem azt próbálja jelezni, hogy nem jó az irány. Figyelmeztetni akar, hogy tévúton járok. Nem lehet visszafordulni, nem szabad visszatérni ahhoz, aminek egyszer már teljes meggy?z?déssel hátat fordítottam, ami szembe megy a lelkiismeretemmel és az ?nbecsülésemmel. Ezúttal mégsem hallgattam a bels? hangomra. Számokat láttam magam el?tt, amelyek igencsak jól mutattak. A lelki béke, a felh?tlen szabadság érzése azonban gellert kapott. ?jra sokat szorongtam, és egyre gyakrabban jutott eszembe, hogy az életem véges. Pakolászni kezdtem magam k?rül, azt hiszem, rendbe akartam tenni a dolgaimat. A világéletemben hangoztatott ?én mindig mindent megoldok” jelmondat halkulni kezdett, bizonytalanná, er?tlenné vált. ?Ki kell bírnom egy ideig” – ez lett az új célkit?zés. A helyzet rosszabb volt, mint ami miatt pár éve világgá mentem onnan. ?m addigra már nyakig benne voltam a s?r?jében, és minden nap azt számolgattam, hány hónapnyi t?réssel tudok megszerezni pár év szerény anyagi biztonságot. Amire aztán nem kerülhetett sor, mert a sors a fejemre koppintott.

Hasas hófelh?kkel terhes ólomszürke ég borul a vidéki kisvárosra. Tóth János tanító családjában disznóvágás lesz, s míg a toros vacsorára készülnek, váratlan események zúzzák szét a hétk?znapok nyugalmát, évtizedek óta felszín alatt lappangó ellentéteket robbantva ki. Két nap leforgása alatt két család élete fordul f?l fenekestül. Két családé, amelyek mindenben kül?nb?znek egymástól, s amelyek sorsát mégis eltéphetetlenül egybefonja a huszadik század t?rténelme. A szegénysorból származó Tóth Jánost ?zvegy édesanyja hihetetlen áldozatok árán taníttatta. Tóth mégis elhagyja ?t és két testvérét, mert belebolondul a valaha jómódú f?ldbirtokos Kémeryék ifjabbik lányába, Paulába. ?t n?vérével és ?ccsével a fukar, szigorú nagymama neveli, akit?l a gyerekek t?bb verést kapnak, mint szeretetet vagy ételt. Nem csoda hát, hogy miután a g?g?s Paula hozzákényszerül ?ccse házitanítójához, Tóth Jánoshoz, a férfinak szüntelen megvetés és megaláztatás jut osztályrészül. Vajon meddig tartható fenn egy kapcsolat, amely az egyik félnek mindent, a másiknak semmit sem jelent? A?Disznótor?az eltemetett titkok regénye: egyszerre s?tét tónusú b?nügyi t?rténet és megrázó, g?r?g sorstragédia. Régi, fájdalmas emlékeket ébresztett bennem a?Disznótor?elolvasása. Hiszen a vallásos, puritán Hajdúság, ahol a regény játszódik, egyben saját gyerekkorom színhelye is, annak minden szépségével és drámájával. Ahogy Szabó Magda is fogalmaz, a k?nyv ?üzenet (…) abból a hajdani világból emebbe”. A nagyszüleim múltba vesz? világából, amelyben nem volt virtualitás, az emberek ?igazi” életet éltek, cselekedeteiknek súlyuk és k?vetkezményük volt, a becsületnek pedig nem volt alternatívája.?– Sándor Anikó

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Szeptemberben indult az ATV-n a Húzós ?t?dik évada Rónai Egonnal, és most itt van a korábbi adásokból ?sszeállított ?t?dik Húzós-k?nyv! Legalább olyan izgalmas, tanulságos és szórakoztató olvasmány, mint a korábbiak. A paletta is rendkívül színes, ?megszólal” benne csillagász, filmrendez?, író, orvosprofesszor, politikus, sportoló, színész, rádiós és televíziós m?sorvezet?, üzletember, valamint zenész. Kedves Olvasó, jó szórakozást! Bajnai Gordon: ?Ennek az országnak az egyik legnagyobb baja az, hogy a politika olyan mélységig beleásta magát az életünkbe, a barátságba, a családba, a munkahelyi kapcsolatokba, a sportba, a kultúrába, hogy a mi életünk szól a politikáról, ahelyett – ahogy egy normális országban –, hogy a politika szólna a mi életünkr?l.” Bródy János: ?…néha az az érzésem, hogy nincs is olyan nagyon messze az a birka ország, amir?l a legutóbb írtam.” Gálv?lgyi János: ?…egy kazettám eljutott Benny Hillhez, akit?l kaptam egy levelet, és kaptam harminc darab dedikált fényképet, t?bbek k?z?tt ilyet: ?Szeretett mesteremnek, Gálv?lgyi Jánosnak! Benny Hill” Kint van a szobám falán.” Gerendai Károly: ?Ma Magyarországon az már gazdag embernek számít, aki hó végén nem küszk?dik napi pénzügyi problémákkal. [...] ?n mindig is arra vágytam, hogy […] megengedhessek magamnak sok mindent… Ráadásul vitatkozom ezzel ?a pénz nem boldogít” mondással, mert nekem az a véleményem, a pénz arra van, hogy boldogítson. Az egy másik kérdés, hogy ?nmagában csak ez nem elegend? a boldogsághoz.” Gundel Takács Gábor: ?Ha az ember tudja, milyen a legkisebb pontnak lenni, és ezt nem felejti el, akkor ember tud maradni kés?bb is. […] De híresnek lenni, meg ismertnek lenni, azért az, bizonyos emberi szempontból, akár csapda is lehet. ?s akár maga alá is temetheti az embert.” Kaáli Nagy Géza: ?…a medd?ség egy betegség, egy népbetegség. [...] Ezek a gyermektelen párok kegyetlen lelkiállapotban vannak amiatt, hogy nem lehet gyerekük, szenvednek. Na, most ezekben az egyébként is küszk?d? emberekben, legyenek hív?k vagy nem hív?k, b?ntudatot ébreszteni, minimálisan szólva, nem szerencsés dolog.” Karinthy Márton: ?…életem meghatározó figurája volt apám. Olyan valaki, akivel mind szembesülni, mind harcolni, mind legy?zni, mind túlhaladni, mind egyáltalán túlélni, az mind program volt. Elég er?s egyéniség volt, ahogy mindig mondta, nemcsak a nagyapád van itt szellemében, hanem én is itt vagyok él?súlyban.” Pásztory Dóra: ?Egyszer?en idegesített, hogy van, amit nem tudok megcsinálni, és magamnak akartam bebizonyítani, hogy márpedig meg tudom csinálni. […] A hajgumizás volt ilyen… Emiatt megn?vesztettem a hajamat, hogy kikísérletezzem, ezt hogyan tudom megoldani. ?s sikerült, begumiztam, aztán levágattam. A probléma megoldódott.” Sas József: ??n fél?s vagyok, de ha fontosnak tartok valamit, akkor nem. Egyébként azok félnek igazán, akik a humortól is félnek.”

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