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“Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.”
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“How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan”
Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”
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“Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.”
Source : "‘Scandal’ Star Jeff Perry On the Duality of Cyrus and Why He Loves Not Knowing Where the Show Will Go Next". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. October 3, 2013.
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“I spent much of my life hiding.”
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“I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.”
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“Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.”
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“Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.”
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“There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.”
Source : Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.6, Modern Library