"For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before."

-- Kathleen Norris

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“The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown”
“There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.”
“Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do.Â It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake.Â Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it.Â Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber.Â I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake.Â It's such an unfair term to us.”
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!”
“It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.”
“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

Source : "Insight and Responsibility".
“Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.”
“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”

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