"No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary."

-- Jean Rhys

#Past Quotes #Practice Quotes #Sentimental Quotes

“I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.”

Source : "Meet Footloose's Kenny Wormald!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 07, 2011.
“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”
“I'm not a guy who did drugs or drank alcohol. I had a good work ethic and gave back to the community.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger...”
“No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.”

Source : Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.
“It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.”
“I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.”
“California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.”

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