"There's more learning than is taught in books."

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Source : Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1179, eBookIt.com

Lady Gregory

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“I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.”
“Connecting to your passion is being you, but better.”
“Cancer isn't going to slow me down.”

Source : "Ethan Zohn: Standing Up to Cancer, the Second Time Around". Interview with Sharon Tanenbaum, www.everydayhealth.com. November 4, 2011.
“Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet”
“A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.”
“We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
“...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.”
“What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.”

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