"You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me."

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Source : Source: collider.com

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“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

Source : "The Leisure Alternatives Catalog: Food for Mind & Body". Book by Joseph Allen, 1979.
“I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.”
“With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the external world, like the planets, the weather, and the universe are really washing over you. Your body feels the intention more than your mind analyzing intellectually too much. I've always tried to do this in my music, to make it very direct and bodily, so that it communicates itself immediately, even to someone without prior knowledge of it.”
“A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.”

Source : Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, Edward W. Beal (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.201, Church Publishing, Inc.
“Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.”
“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.”

Source : "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.
“My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.”
“I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.”

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