"Start close in, donâ€™t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you donâ€™t want to take."

-- David Whyte

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“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.”
“I arrived in Tokyo in around '81. Around that time, I visited London for about two months - it was the period just before Malcolm McLaren released his solo album Duck Rock. I'd met him when he came to Japan, so I visited him in London and spent one evening with him and his girlfriend over at his house. He told me, "London is boring right now. You should go to New York." So he called a friend in New York, who I think was an old assistant or someone who helped him record early hip-hop stuff over there.”

Source : Interview with Fraser Cooke, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.
“I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.”

Source : Oliver James (2007). “Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane”
“I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting for me. I have not gotten to a place where it's like, "All right, here's another." It just doesn't feel workaday, at all, yet. It's kind of killing me, being so nervous so many hours of the day. After the show - we try to end on an anthemic note, and I try and let that be decisive, and I will often come back out for an encore a cappella, and that's where I try and take leave from the feelings of the stage. Trying, after I do that, to return to my life.”
“I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to - to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].”
“We don't even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn't give up and continued to play football”
“If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.”
“Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.”

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