"A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be."

-- John Ray

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“I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.”
“You ought to have seen FrÃ©dÃ©ric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.”
“I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.”
“I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.”
“To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.”

Source : John Flavel (1801). “A Treatise on the Keeping of the Heart”, p.38
“My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure.”
“So to answer your question, Im not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.”
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin

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