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Anatol Rapoport
"One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion." --
Source : "Strategy and Conscience" by Anatol Rapoport, Harper & Row, (p. 195), 1964.
Anatol Rapoport
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“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”
Source : Sharon M. Draper (2010). “Out of My Mind”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.”
“When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.”
“An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.”
Source : "Portrait of the artist: Jane Asher, actor". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.
“I think to always treat others as you would want to be treated yourself and treat every single person with the same amount of respect. It's not often you see it, but sometimes you meet someone who is not very nice to their peers. But when you do, it's a massive lesson in treating everybody with respect.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.”
“I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.”
“At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.”