"We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury."

-- Franz Beckenbauer

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“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
“And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.”
“In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.”
“The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.”
“I always try and take something from each job.”
“In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.”

Source : "Hugh Hefner: The Playboy Interview" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 21, 2011.
“I don't like to be pigeonholed, and I really like that people never really know what's going on with Metllica.”
“Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.94, Penguin

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