"It is always the unreadable that occurs."

-- Oscar Wilde

“In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.”

Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”
“Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.”
“Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.”
“Thatâ€™s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendyâ€™s flipping burgersâ€”she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.”
“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.”
“People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.
“I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.”
“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”

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