"I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of."

-- Glenn Ford

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“I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.”
“I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day!”
“When youâ€™re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, youâ€™re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when youâ€™re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situationâ€¦you just want to breathe again.”
“From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.”
“The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.”
“So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.”
“... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.”

Source : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin
“Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.”

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