"If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Talking Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.”
“I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.”

Source : "Dame Joan Sutherland, operatic icon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. 2005.
“When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“What happened to you?â€ Jace looked affronted. â€œWhat happened to me?â€ Alec shook him, not lightly. â€œYou said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?â€ â€œA long one?â€ Jace suggested.”
“One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.”
“Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.”
“We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin
“Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.”

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