"My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper."

-- James Caan

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“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”
“I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.”
“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.”

Source : Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.90, Revell
“What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.”
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
“Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.”
“We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.”
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”

Source : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure", www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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