"You have to be lonely to be a writer"

-- Edna O'Brien

“You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.”
“Visualization lets you concentrate on all the positive aspects of your game.”
“If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?”

Source : Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours!”
“You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!”
“I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly. They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They develop a richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.”
“If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.”

Source : Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference, January 16, 1604.

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