"Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!"

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Source : Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.211

Kenneth Grahame

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“I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.”
“In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.”
“Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.”
“Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.”
“Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.”

Source : "Joanne Whalley: Here comes trouble". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2010.
“Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.”
“How will the family unit be destroyed? ...[T]he demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.”
“The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.”

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