"The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine."

-- John Dryden

“I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.”
“Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important thing for us ended up being the friendships.”

Source : Source: vandalamagazine.com
“I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.”
“More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.”
“There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.”

Source : Neal Bascomb (2005). “The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.”
“Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries to do, though. If something is successful, they try to repeat it by telling other people, "Hey, do what that guy did." I just don't think it works that way. The first one who gest there, the one that cuts the path ... it's always the roughest path but I think it's got the most reward at the end.”
“I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.”

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