"It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years."

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“I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.”
“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”
“Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.”
“Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.”
“The three drunkest cities in America: Fresno, Riverside, and whatever Mel Gibson is driving through.”
“When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.”
“If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.”

Source : Graham Swift (2012). “Making an Elephant: Writing from Within”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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