"Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life."

-- Thomas L. Dumm

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“In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.”
“I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does. "How's it hanging?" Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!”
“Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!”

Source : William Kamkwamba (2010). “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, p.41, HarperCollins UK
“I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'”
“The ox suffers, the cart complains.”
“Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?”

Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“The coach is the team, and the team is the coach. You reflect each other.”
“For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.”

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