"I think people realise that I'm happy with what I've achieved."

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Source : "Sofía Vergara stars in 'Meet The Browns,' strives for a lead role". Interview with Francis Rodriguez, www.nydailynews.com. March 20, 2008.

Kelly Holmes

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Realising Quotes

“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”
“In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.”
“Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.”
“Domestic violence is a societal problem, not just the NFL's. A lot of the guys felt misunderstood - just because one guy did something to his partner didn't mean they were all like that. We need to help our guys not just be better players, but better people, and to do that, we need to put more into helping them understand difficult relationship situations or miscommunication, rather than addressing only the punishment. The guys felt comfortable talking to me about stuff. They knew I have a doctorate in psychology, so they'd find me and say, "Can I borrow you for a sec"?”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. Thatâ€™s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And itâ€™s a joy to sing, like the birds do.”

Source : David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.35, Canongate Books
“People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity”
“The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.”
“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.”

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