"Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop."

-- Sara Sheridan

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“... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]”
“I feel good. I think everything went good.”

Source : Hal Sutton during The Ryder Cup Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 18, 2004.
“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
“Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.”
“It's hard to outdo the Lord in generosity.”
“I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.”
“The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.”
“The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.”

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