"How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!"

-- Ben Jonson

#Sports Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.”

Source : "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1983.
“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”
“If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.”
“The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling. ... Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again. "Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.”
“I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.”
“I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.”
“And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Mar 25, 2012

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