"If you lose all hope, you can always find it again."

--

Source : Richard Ford (2012). “The Sportswriter”, p.101, A&C Black

Richard Ford

“I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.”
“U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.”
“A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.”
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
“For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all the ingredients together, you can never oversee what it's gonna taste exactly. So while you're doing that, you're tasting.”
“The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.”

Source : "British Prime Minister's EU-Skeptic Speech Leads European News Coverage" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 23, 2013.
“Our motto is, "With God, anywhere: without God, nowhere."”
“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”

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