"The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry."

-- Benedict Cumberbatch

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“Because life is short. I feel weâ€™re made of a hunger, a desire for life â€“ if that can be described as a material. As I get older, Iâ€™m trying to open that channel more. If you donâ€™t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and thatâ€™s what I crave. Thatâ€™s my bliss.”
“Anyone who knows me knows I can be a control freak with things I love doing. I love doing fashion and I love writing, so everything I've done I'm really involved with, so it's not really work to me because I'm enjoying it.”
“Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.”
“In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.”
“The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.”
“Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.”
“So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?”
“There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.”

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