"When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him."

-- Andrew Flintoff

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“The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2010). “On Balance”, p.210, Penguin UK
“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.”
“One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.”
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”

Source : Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.8, Knopf
“You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.”
“Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.”
“I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.”
“The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.”

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