"You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours."

-- Robin Yount

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“Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.”
“There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.”
“The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.”
“Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.”
“When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.”
“It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.98, The Floating Press
“Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.”

Source : "Tamsin Greig: Green Goddess". The Independent Interview, www.independent.co.uk. May 05, 2006.
“Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.”

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