"I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times"

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Source : "Walking Tall". news.bbc.co.uk. July 23, 2007.

John Amaechi

#Sports Quotes #Morning Quotes #Gay Quotes

“The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."”
“Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.”
“Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)”
“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“I think the first villain that I ever played was on Stargate. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.”
“Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.”
“I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.
“...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

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