"My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome."

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Source : Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.

#Passion Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Able Quotes

“Always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie?”
“It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.”
“Some people warned me against getting married soon. They said your career will end if you do. I felt I wanted to marry Siddharth (Roy Kapur) and I went ahead and married him. And I guess he felt like he wanted to marry me, so we are married today. If I hadnâ€™t felt it for the next ten years probably I wouldnâ€™t have got married. There is no right time. Thereâ€™s never a right time.”
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.”
“Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.”
“While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”
“There is a comfort in knowing that you donâ€™t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.”

Source : Ellen Bass, Laura Davis (2012). “Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children”, p.9, Harper Collins
“I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.”

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