"Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words"

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Chris Kamara

#Nervous Quotes #Tense Quotes

“The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.”
“The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.”

Source : "No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin People". Book by Evan T. Pritchard, 2001.
“I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”
“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”
“I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.”
“There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.”
“He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Jul 31, 2016
“When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to pushing her out of his life. Men! Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand, when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?”

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