"If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying."

-- David Foster Wallace

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“Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.”
“So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.”
“I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.”

Source : "Films in schools are inspiring children with the joy of learning" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
“By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.”
“The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.”
“I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”
“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.”

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