"I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled."

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Source : "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" by Benedict Nightingale, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2008.

Paul Scofield

#Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio.”

Source : "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.
“Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.”
“I love interpreting other people's music.”
“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.”
“And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.”
“Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco”
“It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.”

Source : Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.33, Penguin Books India
“For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.”

Source : Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney (2011). “Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength”, p.56, Penguin

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