"When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not."

-- Neal Ascherson

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Scotland Quotes

“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

Source : "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.
“I'm legitimately having more fun doing music, but at the same time I worked my whole life for baseball. If I had to pick, I would probably pick music. I just connect more with the fact that other people connect with that I'm doing so much. It's a much cooler thing than being good at sports.”
“Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless.”
“Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.”

Source : Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”
“The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.”
“If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.”
“I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.”

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