Ken Spillman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.
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My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
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The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
-- Ken Spillman
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I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
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It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.
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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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