"The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians."

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Source : Robyn Young (2010). “Insurrection: Insurrection Trilogy”, p.47, Hachette UK

Robyn Young

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“I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.”
“That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show every time I open my mouth. Twenty years ago, I told myself I'd rather direct than act, and it's taken me this long. You lose your passion in acting. You make too many mistakes. Maybe that's why I make so many movies; if you don't like this one, another one's opening on Tuesday. But then I spent six months of my life on 'At Long Last Love,' a picture nobody saw. I enjoyed making it, I learned from it, I grew, but that's too much time out of my life.”
“When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.”
“My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.”

Source : Interview with SkellieScar, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2012.
“Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.”
“I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'”
“Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.”
“The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

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