"I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one."

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Nicole Krauss

#Nice Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.”

Source : "From Wrestling To Acting: An Interview With Dave Bautista". Interview with Phil Brown, www.cgmagonline.com. August 01, 2014.
“Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.”

Source : Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan
“I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.”
“How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.”
“The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.”
“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.”
“We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.”
“I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.”

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