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“When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound -- this is what I had to go through.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.”
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“I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.”
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“How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me?”
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“I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.”
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“The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.”
Source : Elmore Leonard (2007). “Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing”, William Morrow
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“I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say.”
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“Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.”
Source : Peter Potterfield, Tom Hornbein (2003). “Everest”, p.141, The Mountaineers Books
