"How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!"

-- Robert Knepper

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“Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.”
“A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.”
“A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.”

Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.
“I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.”
“I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.”
“CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.”
“Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?”
“Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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