"No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself."

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Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.142, Macmillan

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

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“Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.”
“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
“I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.”
“As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.”

Source : "From XLIII: An interview with Joe Montana". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. February 01, 2009.
“Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.”
“They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a Chinese accent. I'm doing my friend's accent. And they said, yeah, you can't do that. And I said, OK, but can I do a Russian accent? And they said, yeah, yeah, of course, you can do that. I said, and a British accent? They said, yeah, go ahead. And I couldn't understand.”
“First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.”
“War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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